ContentBiz articles from May 2001

ContentBiz archives from May 2001

FinancialContent Undercuts the Big Guys By Up to 80%.
May 3, 2001... "When I registered this domain name a year ago, I was amazed it was still available," says FinancialContent President Greg Fidan. Now his company is amazing the big financial content distributors such as Stockpoint, by undercutting their prices...

Books24x7 Sells 200,000 Subscriptions to a Database of Business Books Online.
May 3, 2001... Business book and research publishers will want to check out the notes at the end of this Case Study to learn how they can connect with Books24x7. And everyone who's ever tried to sell a content feed or database into the corporate marketplace -...

F---Company.com Reveals Subscription Sales Figures.
May 10, 2001... Publisher Philip Kaplan, who began offering an upgraded version of his free F---Company.com site to paying subscribers at $25 and $75 price points this March, told NYPost.com this week that he has, "860 subscribers, paying an average of $63 a...

A Solution to Email Newsletter Publishers' Intellectual Property & Email Forwarding Woes.
May 10, 2001... Several ContentBiz readers have written praising the tactics the LangaList email newsletter uses to get readers to forward individual articles without breaking copyright or losing attribution. We were impressed with the system, but wondered if...

Email Newsletter Pioneer Dr Ralph Wilson Tests Offline Syndication.
May 10, 2001... For the past year, Dr Ralph Wilson of Wilson Internet Services has been syndicating his Dr eBiz column to Web sites in exchange for them allowing him to collect new subscriber names via a form imbedded in his articles. (See link below for more...

Legal Content Distributor Mondaq Changes Its Business Model and Blows Away Revenue Expectations.
May 10, 2001... Bored of hearing about subscription Web sites?In our continued quest to bring you details of profitable, online content business models, we contacted the folks at Mondaq. You could call them an electronic vanity press for lawyers. Ka-ching! ...

Research Publisher Grows Profits by Implementing Digital Content Security.
May 17, 2001... "Most people don't knowingly or willfully steal content," Oscar Vaz, Senior Analyst for research publisher TechSearch says, "Our market is typically engineers and high-level business managers. Most of them understand copyright law but what ends...

Whatsonwhen Expects Profitability from Licensed Content Sales by Late 2001.
May 17, 2001... Two years ago, as head of the travel section for one of the UK's largest ISPs, Emily Spencer was searching for a content licensing company to sell her constantly refreshed listings for events tourists might want to attend around the world from...

RedBooks.com Gets 500 Paying Subscribers Averaging $829 Each.
May 17, 2001... Peter Valli, Product Manager RedBooks.com, called us to share the happy news that they've hit 500 subscribers, at an average price of $829, smack dab on the directories' first anniversary online. The site is an ancillary product from the...

How Lee Enterprises Doubled Online Ad Sales at Local Newspaper Sites Across America.
May 17, 2001... Most traditional media companies have had a hard time figuring out how to handle media sales for their online divisions. Should you have an entirely separate sales team for online media? Or, should you ask your offline sales team to add online...

Show Summary: Selling Subscriptions to Internet Content.
May 24, 2001... On May 18th 2001, eight subscription pioneers, including leaders from three of the top four subscription sites online today, shared their marketing, business model and profitability details during an all-day event held by ContentBiz. ...