It’s been very difficult to monetize, sell, make money from newspapers. The Internet has come along, the Internet is perceived as free, and people who are working very hard to produce very high-quality journalism have not been able to get paid properly. – Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2011
Barely had the ink dried on Apple’s press release yesterday announcing its subscription service when Google threw down the gauntlet today with its rival One Pass service for the struggling community of content publishers. At first glance, One Pass (powered by Google’s CheckOut payment system) looks like a better option for content publishers compared to […]
Apple has rolled out a new subscription service that lets users of its popular iPhone, iPad and iPod touch gadgets subscribe to content like news, video, music et al from its AppStore digital media repository. Publishers of content-based apps like Netflix, Amazon, Wall Street Journal et al can set the price and length of subscription […]
As we were idly browsing through our well thumbed copy of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (18th Edition) a little while ago, we stumbled upon an interesting English word with, of course, a strong connection to India – Bombay Fornicator. Sounds interesting, na? Bet all you chutias’ hands are already inching their way down. […]
As Indians start to make a little money to eat two meals a day and buy a few clothes to cover their private parts, some of them are exhibiting weird and violent behavior. You can’t open an Indian newspaper these days without reading of yet another rape or molestation. No, we’re not making it up. […]
* Noose Tightens on Indian Nero – Here on SI, we’ve long held Gujarat Chief Minister and Hindu leader Narendra Modi guilty of playing Nero while Muslims were butchered and set afire in the post-Godhra riots of 2002. But Modi’s role may have gone further than merely playing Nero. Indian investigative magazine Tehelka has yet […]