Adventures With E-books, Kindle Single Edition

By Felix Salmon   Sep 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM

Ryan Avent’s 90-page Kindle single, The Gated City, is a bargain at $1.99. It was produced in close consultation with... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg Headlines, Bad Ad News, Wall Street Protests

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 21, 2011 at 06:53 PM

The Audit has a love-hate reading relationship with Bloomberg News's wacky headlines. Here are a few we've flagged over the... More

Audit Notes: Newsstand Success, Paywalls and Tacos, WSJ on Debt Collectors

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 23, 2011 at 05:05 PM

How much has Apple's Newsstand increased sales of magazine apps. It's hard to say, but Peter Kafka posts a chart... More

Audit Notes: Paying for Newspapers Edition

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 20, 2011 at 10:26 PM

I may have spoken too soon when I said to expect The New York Times's paid subscription growth rate to... More

Audit Notes: The Occupy-Rwanda Connection, Reckless Blame, Jarvis For Dummies

By Ryan Chittum   Oct 28, 2011 at 07:39 PM

Speaking of Fort Smith's City Wire, the website reports on a talk by former Alltel CEO Scott Ford to the... More

Business Insider and Over-Aggregation

By Felix Salmon   Sep 30, 2011 at 09:32 AM

Henry Blodget has a long and detailed response to Marco Arment, which is fascinating to anybody interested in the nuts... More

How the NYT Paywall Is Working

By Felix Salmon   Aug 15, 2011 at 02:22 PM

When I wrote about the success of the NYT paywall last month, I got a lot of pushback in... More

Matter’s Vision for Long-form Journalism

By Felix Salmon   Feb 23, 2012 at 07:56 PM

Yesterday morning, a very exciting new journalism project was launched on Kickstarter. It’s called Matter, and it’s going to be... More

Nonprofit News and the Tax Man

The IRS questions whether journalism startups qualify for tax-exempt status

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 17, 2011 at 02:28 PM

The future of nonprofit news organizations has hit an unexpected roadblock in the agency that determines their tax-exempt status: The... More

Paywalls: Maybe Not So Complicated After All

Thinking over Clay Shirky’s piece on the success of the NYT model

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 17, 2012 at 01:21 PM

Clay Shirky, a leading paywall skeptic, deserves credit for grappling with what is now generally conceded to be the clear... More

The NYT Paywall Is Out of the Gate Fast

281,000 paying digital subscribers in three months show readers will pay for quality news

By Ryan Chittum   Jul 22, 2011 at 08:14 PM

The Wall Street Journal has long had a successful online paywall. The Financial Times has one, too. We can confidently... More

The Hamster Wheel and the AOL Way

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM

Audit Chief Dean Starkman's "Hamster Wheel" piece has now been enshrined in the lexicon of the bureaucracy with the release... More

The Old-School Value of Facebook

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 1, 2012 at 06:41 PM

The New York Times's curtain-raiser on the Facebook IPO this morning asks, "Personal Data’s Value? Facebook Is Set to Find... More

Why the NYT Paywall Isn’t Like the FT’s

By Felix Salmon   Aug 15, 2011 at 02:32 PM

Fred Wilson has nice things to say about my analysis of the NYT paywall—thanks, Fred!—but it’s worth teasing out one... More