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Spin’s Subscription iPad App Acquired by BuzzMedia, Along With Other Assets

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BuzzMedia will buy Spin Media, the owner of Spin Magazine, the two companies announced yesterday. Spin Magazine is best known for its 27-year-old print magazine, a mainstay in the alternative music industry. But the publication has expanded its digital offerings in recent years, culminating in an enviably designed iPad app called Spin Play. What makes the Spin Play so great is that it uses the uniqueness of the tablet medium to its advantage — readers can stream…

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Next Issue Launches iPad Subscriptions for Consumer Mags

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Earlier this year, I wrote about how major magazine publishers had partnered with Next Issue to offer digital versions of popular consumer publications. The magazines would be available for any Android device and had a variety of pricing plans, including basic and premium subscriptions.Now, Next Issue is bringing its technology and 39 consumer publications from Cond…

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Subscription Billing Can Work Around New E.U. Ruling on Download Resales

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A European court has ruled that consumers can re-sell their downloads, just as they would re-sell boxed CDs, DVDs and used books. The case was brought by Oracle against UsedSoft, a site that buys and sells used software licenses. But it also likely means that consumers who download MP3, PDFs, or video files (like recorded Webinars) can resell those downloads to other consumers. This can threaten many paid content sites who look to make money off one-off…

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Pulse v. Flipboard: Which is Better for Your Subscription Site?

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The recent news of the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) deal with Pulse and The New York Times’ (NYT) arrangement with Flipboard gives paid content executives new options when considering how they should partner with third-party vendors and maximize profits.In case you missed it, here’s a quick summary of the deals: WSJ + Pulse: Pulse recently announced its “Premium Sources” feature, through which Pulse users can choose from three different subscription plans for the Wall Street Journal–…

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Top 3 Questions to Ask Before Selecting Speakers for Your Events

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Successful subscription sites know that its best to diversify revenue streams. And live events are often a great way to do that.But with the advent of professional networking sites like LinkedIn and recorded talks from TED, audience expectations for events have increased. You’ve gotta be more compelling and engaging than ever before. That means choosing the right speakers and making sure their presentations meet your audience’s expectations. Our sister site, Subscription Site Insider, recently published a…

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Paid Content Sites to Benefit from New Web Markup Created by Google, Bing & Yahoo

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In case you missed it (I did!), Google, Bing and Yahoo are actually collaborating. The Search Engine Big 3 have endorsed Schema.org, a collection of html tags that webmasters can use to index their sites in new ways, much like the sitemap concept, a previous collaboration between the companies. The code will allow publishers to describe their content better, using meta-categories like: Creative works: CreativeWork, Book, Movie, MusicRecording, Recipe, TVSeries … AudioObject, ImageObject, VideoObject for embedded non-text objects Event Organization Person Place,…

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Twitter Cuts Off Service to LinkedIn, Will It Affect Your Site Traffic?

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This just in: Twitter has cut off tweets on its site from LinkedIn, ending the two year partnership between the two social networking sites, reports CBSNews.com. What does this mean exactly? For users, if you’ve synced your LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, posts on LinkedIn will still be cross-posted on Twitter. However, your tweets on Twitter will no longer be published on LinkedIn. For subscription and membership sites, this means that you may see lower ratios of site…

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Kindle and Nook Collect Customer Data, But Stingy About Sharing

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Online and independent publishers have been frustrated for a while now by the lack of customer data they can collect after making their content available on e-readers like the Kindle and Nook. But that doesn’t mean Amazon and Barnes & Noble haven’t been amassing more data than they can use, to paraphrase one executive. Amazon is still tight-lipped about much of it’s useful data, opting to share useless “stats” like the fact that people like the…

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Subscription Sites to Benefit From New Google Wallet and Google Play Features

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Some good news for subscription sites this week from Google. At their I/O conference this past Wednesday, Google Wallet product manager Pali Baht announced that the service is now supporting recurring billing. The change only really applies to digital goods, not goods that are bought in bricks and mortar stores through Google Wallet’s PayPass feature.Google Wallet will charge merchants a 5% fee for small transactions, or a 1.9% rate plus 30 cents for larger transactions. Google…

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Build Your Presence on Amazon by Publishing Your Free Content on Kindle

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As more and more online magazines and newspapers launch Kindle and tablet editions of their content, Amazon search results are becoming almost as critical as Google rankings. If you’re already publishing — or thinking of publishing — your premium content on Kindle devices, you may also want to take advantage of Amazon’s “Kindle Publishing for Blogs” program. In a couple of easy steps, you can sell your free content for a low monthly subscription rate of…

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