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More Evidence that Newspaper Paywalls don’t work

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news

Hold the Front Page is reporting: Regional publisher Johnston Press is quietly dropping its experiment in introducing paywalls to some of its local newspaper websites.As first revealed by HTFP last November, JP imposed a £5 subscription for anyone wanting to read stories in full on some of its local sites, including the Whitby Gazette in [...]

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New Evidence Found for Flint’s Law

March 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news

I mentioned Flint’s Law on this blog a couple weeks back (here). Today I came across another piece of evidence that proves it.  Here’s an excerpt from a blog post by Nathan Henrion: One of our free titles was the #1 download on Amazon for the entire month of February. The subsequent sales of books [...]

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