paidcontent reporting:
Magazine
publishers will have to adopt more nuanced digital pricing strategies
as tablets take off. They can look to book publishers — who are a lot
further along in the digital revolution — for some help.
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Keach Hagey
takes a look at trends in digital magazine pricing and finds a number
of publishers charging more for tablet editions than print. As ad
revenue declines, publishers are turning to digital magazines as a way
to “become more leveraged toward consumer revenue and a little less
dependent on advertising,” in the words of Hearst president David Carey.
And here’s Condé Nast president Bob Sauerberg: “We’re using this new
platform and the clear demand for all access to our content as a way to
redefine our subscription offerings at a higher price. The industry is
trying to take a step forward because we’re all trying to get more money
from the consumer.”
But how long will these pricing strategies work? Digital still makes
up only a tiny percentage of magazine publishers’ overall revenues: The
Alliance for Audited Media (formerly the Audit Bureau of Circulations)
reported in August that digital replica editions (which replicate most
of a print magazine’s editorial and advertising content, and make up the
vast majority of magazines’ digital versions) made up just 1.7 percent of overall circulation. The WSJ story says big magazine publishers think digital won’t hit 10 percent of circulation until 2015.
Pricing strategies that very early adopters appear to be accepting
are not likely to work for a general population. Magazine publishers may
need to adopt more nuanced digital pricing strategies as tablets take
off. And they can look to book publishers — who are a lot further along
in the digital revolution, with ebooks now making up over 20 percent of
revenues at large publishing houses — for some help. Here are a few
things they’ll have to think about:..
http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/25/what-digital-magazines-can-learn-from-ebook-publishers/
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