E-Commerce News: Publishing

B2B in a Web 2.0 World, Part 1: Digital Media Relations

Friday - May 9, 2008

Attention! We're listening! Seeking competitive advantage and profitability through good relations with the social media, the B2B world has energetically embraced the grand online colloquy known as the two-way talk-back "conversation." Blogs, vlogs, e-communities and social networks, Internet forums, message boards, chat rooms, wikis, podcasts, webcasts, videocasts, RSS feeds -- these online social media platforms are now in play in the B2B relationships that organizations have with their vendors, suppliers, partners and contractors. [More...]

TV, Online Ad Sales Lift Scripps Q1 Earnings Above Estimates

Thursday - April 24, 2008

Media company E.W. Scripps said Thursday its first-quarter profit rose 23 percent from the same period a year ago, mostly because of higher ratings and ad sales at its HGTV and Food Network. Net earnings were $84.1 million, or 51 cents a share, for the January-March period compared with $68.5 million, or 42 cents a share, a year ago. [More...]

Publisher Puts German Wikipedia on Paper

Wednesday - April 23, 2008

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, is to be published in Germany as a book for people who prefer turning pages to clicking links, publishing multinational Random House said Tuesday. Editors will distill 50,000 of the most popular entries in the German version of Wikipedia into the 1,000-page volume to go on sale in September. [More...]

For Sale: 3 Blogs, Barely Used; Seller Highly Motivated

Tuesday - April 15, 2008

Gawker Media, one of the most recognized blog networks, announced the sale of three properties -- including political blog Wonkette -- as Publisher Nick Denton tries to bolster the company in preparation for an online advertising slowdown. Throughout the past several years, Gawker Media has made waves with its aggressive move into niche publishing. [More...]

Yahoo Thinks It Knows What Women Want

Monday - March 31, 2008

Seeking to tap deeper into a key demographic for advertisers, Yahoo on Monday launched Shine, a Web site meant to become an Internet starting point for women between the ages of 25 and 54. Shine will offer content licensed from publishers such as Conde Nast and Hearst in nine categories, including fashion, beauty, relationships, healthy living and parenting. [More...]

Creating New Revenue With Old Content

Tuesday - March 25, 2008

Content and advertising have enjoyed a longstanding, symbiotic, codependent relationship -- although not necessarily in the unhealthy sense of the word. Content publishers need advertisers to pay the bills while advertisers simultaneously need content to create traffic they hope to draw to their goods and services. [More...]

Media Giants Challenge Portals for Online Ad Turf

Monday - March 24, 2008

Traditional media companies trying to stem the flow of advertising dollars to Google and other large Internet companies are increasingly building ad networks of their own, anchored by their brands. The latest, Forbes, announced Monday that it will start selling ads this spring for about 400 financial blogs. [More...]

File-Sharers Fight Back, Apple Mulls Subscriptions, China Cracks Down

Friday - March 21, 2008

Since the RIAA and record companies began their campaign of suing college students, grandmothers, children, single moms and anyone else who might have shared a song over peer-to-peer networks, most people on the receiving end of the lawsuits have meekly agreed to pay settlements amounting to far less than the RIAA warned they could be sued for. A handful have fought back, though. [More...]

iPhone Goes Corporate, Jobs Trash-Talks Adobe, Nine Inch Nails Bucks the System

Friday - March 7, 2008

So the iPhone can't run Flash -- sorry, you can't use it to watch Homestar Runner cartoons. However, that's not necessarily the biggest concern in the world for people who'd love to run an iPhone on an enterprise network. Their concern is usually that the things just don't have robust enough features or security for a business environment. Now, Apple has answered those concerns. [More...]

Ziff Davis Turns to Chapter 11 to Ease Debt Load

Thursday - March 6, 2008

Ziff Davis Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The publisher of technology and video game magazines cited falling advertising revenues in its print publications in filing for protection from creditors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York. [More...]

Wikipedia in the Newsroom, Part 2: Putting It to the Test

Sunday - March 2, 2008

There's no unanimity about Wikipedia among academic experts, who have engaged in vigorous debates about the online encyclopedia. While many professors refuse to allow students to cite it, it has attracted some prominent defenders, including historians and scientists who have analyzed its content. [More...]

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