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Monday, March 14
WSJ: 200K Tablet Subscribers
The country's leading business news publication has now sold 200,000 digital subscriptions to readers who own tablet-style devices, including the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle. The WSJ charges mobile subscribers $3.99 a week for the digital edition. On an annual basis, this equals about $41.5 million in extra circulation revenues. (Theoretically, that's more profitable than print circ revenue, since the publisher saves costs on ink, paper, and fuel and labor for delivery.