With e-books now making up about 20 percent of sales for many big publishers, it’s essential for bestseller lists to include them in order to give an accurate picture of what is selling. The Wall Street Journal will start running e-book bestseller lists starting this weekend, following a move by…

The Australian, which is owned by News Limited and is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), is adding a paywall to its website, mobile site and apps starting on Monday. It will also relaunch redesigned versions of the website and mobile site that day.

Given that most of the WSJ.com’s content is behind a paywall, the goal of its new Facebook app, WSJ Social, is viewed as more of an advertising and marketing opportunity aimed at attracting sponsorships and building more engagement with subscribers. In keeping with that idea, all content available through the…

News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) sent out a flurry of memos and statements in the wake of news that Les Hinton had resigned as CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Below are Hinton’s resignation letter to old friend and boss Rupert Murdoch and memo to the…

The latest News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). casualty in the spreading hacking scandal: Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones since it was acquired by News Corp. in 2007 and publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Hinton who is close to Rupert Murdoch, resigned today—not for anything he did at the Journal…

It must have sounded like a great idea to someone at News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) at the time: “Hey, I know how we can sell more subscriptions through the New York Post iPad App! Let’s block access through iPad Safari and make them go to the app instead.” What they…

Wasn’t the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than half—58.1 percent —of print newspaper subscribers who devote about an hour a day reading news on the device are “very likely” to cancel their print subscriptions within…

In early 2006, Howard Schultz talked about the power of having a massive collection of Wi-Fi hotspots, declaring “Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) is a network” with a ““unique proprietary competitive advantage. We understand the cultural relevancy of digital fill-up. I can’t say when, but it’s in our future.” Turns out it…

The Wall Street Journal was a poster child for premium subscriptions long before Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) bought out the Bancroft family.  But the digital landscape has changed dramatically since then. Murdoch, who floated massive trial balloons about free sites when online advertising was hot, instead is using…

The Times’ iPad edition, which went on sale along with the tablet’s UK debut Friday morning, sold 5,000 copies in three days, News Corp.‘s CEO Rupert Murdoch told AllThingsD’s D8 conference Tuesday, at which he also spoke about the true value of content (see our full post). At the app…

It’s not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for the Wall Street Journal iPad app after its first month. “Unlike the Kindle, we keep 100 percent of the…

The app announcements have been rolling out all morning in anticipation of tomorrow’s iPad release. Among the initial iPad apps now in Apple’s online store is the WSJ’s app, which is free to download, but costs users for $3.99 per week for access—compared to the $2.69 a week charge for…

While others stress over whether to try paywalls and fees, the Wall Street Journal does the Murdoch March to its own drummer. Or, as Gordon McLeod, the president of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, says, “to us, it’s a no brainer.” That’s why the company’s surveys of its iPhone…

The man behind The Wall Street Journal’s pay-for mobile app says charging for content isn’t the sole answer for mobile publishers—ads, he says, should also be part of the monetization strategy. Read on for excerpts from our interview with Paul Reddick, CEO of app developer Handmark, which makes apps for…

Rupert Murdoch’s plans to charge for mobile access to the Wall Street Journal kick into full gear next month, with $104 fees for non-print or online subscribers for the Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader—and a pay wall for m.wsj.com as well. Current subscribers to print or online will be charged…

The Wall Street Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry and iPhone, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference. He didn’t offer a time frame for the charges, but indicated it would it start…

Updated In the latest round of will he-won’t he, Rupert Murdoch told his own Fox Business Network not to expect a Kindle-like device from News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Speaking in Sun Valley, where he is participating in the Allen & Co. conference, Murdoch said: “I don’t think that’s likely. We’re…

Rupert Murdoch has already said News Corp (NYSE: NWS) intends to charge “handsomely” for its WSJ iPhone and Blackberry apps eventually. How much and when? Still unclear but WSJ.com is surveying iPhone users about their willingness to pay for what is now a completely free product. The idea seems to…