- UK’s Telegraph may introduce paywall this September The Telegraph will reportedly announce a new online paywall strategy as early as next month, with full implementation by September of this year, according to Marketing Magazine. By doing so, it will join other similar publications, including The Times and Sunday Times, and The News of the World, who have all adapted such strategies last year with moderate success.
- Google announces new payment and access control system for digital publishers Not to be outdone by Apple’s new subscription service introduced yesterday, Google have today announced One Pass - a system for digital publishers that controls “user authentication, payment processing, and administration” of digital content.
- Times paywall figures revealed This morning News International have released widely anticipated figures on the Times’s paywall: 105,000 people have paid to access the site since the paywall was introduced in July of this year.
- News of the World to go behind a paywall next month News International, a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, is to place a third title, The News of the World, behind an online paywall next month.