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Subscription For Content Is New Net Trend Pt II
News Anytime you introduce a subscription fee for content, you're absolutely going to radically reduce the number of people who will choose to pay or become readers, and that's what we found at Slate. Acknowledging the difficulty of converting readers...
[March 30, 2001, 13:54]
Subscription For Content Is New Net Trend
News James Cramer, a director at TheStreet.com and an outspoken proponent of paid content on the Web, says the collapse in the online ad market has justified his company's early subscription efforts. Despite this, by 2003, 78 percent of publishing...
[March 30, 2001, 13:48]
RealNetworks Considers Porn
News The company is in discussions with several audio and video producers to expand the lineup on the RealOne SuperPass content subscription service, said Dave Richards, RealNetworks' vice president of consumer systems in an interview this week.
[August 16, 2002, 8:45]
MP3.com Announces Subscription System
News MP3.com chairman and chief executive Michael Robertson announced Tuesday a new subscription system for music content. While the subscription system addresses the availability of content, MP3.com's developer kits address delivery of that content.
[June 21, 2000, 13:51]
Real Takes Charge In Subscription Software
News The software, called RBN Managed Subscription Service, lets content producers create their own subscription services. Instead, it has focused its efforts on RealOne, a subscription video service that partners with major content providers such as...
[April 10, 2002, 7:31]
RealNetworks Launches Subscription Music Service
News RealNetworks launched its much-anticipated subscription service for online music Tuesday, offering a major test of consumer demand for paid content on the Web. Despite some shortcomings for consumers, RealNetworks has left a big role for non...
[December 4, 2001, 16:00]
Guardian Sticks Toe In Online Revenue Stream
News The Guardian announced on Tuesday that it will soon launch a subscription version of its popular Guardian Unlimited Web site, www.guardian.co.uk. It is also hoping to persuade readers of two of its daily emails to pay a £12.50-per-year subscription...
[July 8, 2003, 14:07]
Real Competitors Could Go For Gold
News An inspiration for many of the new services is RealNetworks' GoldPass, recently renamed RealOne, a content-subscription channel that has drawn hundreds of thousands of paying customers in the past year.
[November 21, 2001, 12:16]
Pearson Denies FT.com To End Free Access
News The Sunday Times story misses the difference between a pure subscription model, and a mode of free content and premium paid services," a Pearson spokesman insisted. Rebecca Ulph, analyst at Forrester Research, believes that Pearson may be hoping to...
[February 6, 2001, 14:58]
AOL In Subscription-music Trial
News In features and content, the new AOL service will be roughly comparable to similar monthly subscription offers from Pressplay -- distributed through Yahoo and Microsoft's media player -- and Listen.com's Rhapsody.
[February 26, 2003, 15:51]
MP3.com Offers Pay-for-play Music
News It's also a risky strategy: Most subscription services on the Net have failed to convince people to pay for content. What we have here is a massive collection of content with full permissions to offer this content as part of a subscription model...
[May 3, 2000, 8:29]
Microsoft Preps Content Locks For Devices
News The problem of portable devices has been a tricky one for record companies and other content producers trying to sell their work online or create subscription services. Microsoft is preparing an upgrade to its anti-piracy technology aimed at...
[April 5, 2002, 9:28]
Listen.com To Tune In New Music Service
News Analysts, however, say it could take years for music subscription services to take off -- especially if they don't offer "compelling" content that is unavailable on existing file-swapping software. Music service provider Listen.com is set to flip...
[December 3, 2001, 11:25]
Napster's Subscription Holy Grail Fading
News Most analysts say creating a subscription service is the most plausible scenario for Napster, although it poses significant problems, such as gaining the cooperation of hostile record labels, convincing members to shell out for the service...
[February 13, 2001, 15:02]
Pressplay Slips Onto MP3.com
News Pressplay said on Tuesday that it has launched its online music subscription service on MP3.com, whose technology division provides a blueprint for the Pressplay service. People pay a monthly subscription fee to access Pressplay's online music...
[January 23, 2002, 12:02]
Yahoo! To Launch Paid Net Video Service
News is close to unveiling details of a paid, subscription-based Internet video service that will compete with a similar product from RealNetworks, according to sources familiar with the plans. last year began testing user appetite for such a product as...
[February 10, 2003, 8:38]
Next Windows Media Player Touts Services
News But it is also something of an admission that RealNetworks and AOL Time Warner have done a better job than have Microsoft's customers at building feasible subscription services for Internet content. Earlier, Real had taken on providing end-to-end...
[August 7, 2002, 8:36]
NYTimes.com Offers 'premium' Clips
News To help publishers offset the high costs of delivering video online, RealNetworks recently introduced software called RBN Managed Subscription Service, allowing content producers to create subscription services for their online media.
[April 24, 2002, 15:36]
Nomad Media Hub
Downloads NMH is entirely multimedia-enabled, allowing multiple channel subscription, customization, playback, and support for rich mobile contents such as podcasts, videocasts, image, and text feeds. NMH includes personalizable 'My NOMAD channel manager...
[April 10, 2006, 21:16]
Napster Announces Deal With Publishers
News The company hasn't yet publicly said how much it will charge for its subscription service or what proportion of this revenue will go to content owners. Music-swapping company Napster announced a major deal with music publishers on Monday, settling...
[September 25, 2001, 11:33]
