http://www.econtentmag.com/rss/rss_feeds/default.aspxRSS feeds from EContent magazine.All Content Copyright ? 1998-2006, Online: a Division of Information Today Inc.60Each month, Michelle Manafy, editor of EContent magazine, will interview thought leaders and discuss the emerging technology, trends, and business models that shape the digital content industry. If you are in business today, then you are in the digital content business. Listen and learn how to make the most of your content.http://www.econtentmag.com/Images/econtent122x50.gifhttp://www.econtentmag.comThu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTTheIndie.biz launched a new feature on its site that lets independent music fans tag and sell their favorite music through Twitter, Facebook, bebo, and MySpace. The feature is designed to give independent bands the opportunity to take advantage of social networking to expand sales for their music. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=68350Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTVindicia announced that Boxee has selected its CashBox billing solution to enable the new Boxee Payment Platform. Boxee, a service that brings movies, TV shows, and video from the Internet to the TV screen, will use CashBox to let its content partners offer premium content to users through a wide variety of payment methods and plans, from individual pay-per-view charges to premium subscription models.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=67176Steve SmithSteve SmithThu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMTSelling goods and leveraging community will both be important to content providers moving forward, of course. But one long overdue goal of digital media, to "get beyond the banner," is going to be critical if traditional media want to retrieve the kinds of revenue many of them are losing in their offline properties. Ultimately, digital media really starts paying off for publishers when they get advertisers to spend more of their budgets online.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=66005Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTOfferpal Media, a developer of virtual currency payment alternatives, announced it has acquired Tapjoy, creators of the Tapjoy platform for mobile developers and a provider of monetization and distribution services on the iPhone, Android, and other emerging mobile platforms. As part of the agreement, the co-founders of Tapjoy will join Offerpal in leadership positions to help expand its mobile business. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=66166Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTThe American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the launch of a pilot program that allows individuals to "rent" single articles for a 24-hour period for $0.99. The service, created by DeepDyve, allows users to read, but not download or print, the full text of an article. AIP will be offering its new article rental service on an experimental basis until the end of September.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=66167Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTMilitary book publisher Osprey Publishing announced that five of its military history books are now available as "?freemium" apps via the Apple App store.London-based digital publishing company Exact Editions oversaw the development of the applications.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=66099Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTNICE Systems Ltd., a provider of strategic insight and customer analysis solutions, brought real-time data analytics to its NICE SmartCenter suite of business solutions. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=61551Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMTSpringer advanced its relationship with the Copyright Clearance Center, a not-for-profit organization providing copyright licensing solutions for various forms of publishing. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=61554Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTEbook and audiobook distributor Overdrive announced a set of new services that will expand its digital distribution network for copyrighted digital media.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=61296Michelle ManafyMichelle ManafyMon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTWhen ContentNext founder Rafat Ali, took the stage at the debut paidContent Conference, he made his position clear saying that he "supports a variety of business models and revenue streams." And for this event, the bottom line theme was supporting the bottom line.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=61262Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMTKonaKart and dotCMS, two Java-based software development firms, collaborated to develop an open architecture to facilitate plugin interaction between KonaKart's e-commerce solutions and dotCMS's content management systems.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=60996Nancy Davis KhoNancy Davis KhoFri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTIn discussing the decision to shake up the CODiE Awards by moving the program from its traditional home during the spring NetGain conference in San Francisco, SIIA Content Division vice president Ed Keating noted that "there's not much difference between a rut and a groove." That premise of breaking out of a rut was certainly in evidence in the product strategies of the 15 winning companies, winnowed from more than one hundred nominees through two rounds of voting.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=60863Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTiCopyright announced a new billing and licensing service designed to supply content to business and enterprise users. http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=60673Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMTA global survey conducted by the Nielsen Company of more than 27,000 consumers in 54 countries found that consumers had widely varying attitudes about their willingness to pay for online content, with an emphasis on both demographics and the specific type of content.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=60529Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMTOxford University Press (OUP) has signed an agreement with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to license the reuse of approximately 100,000 books and journals from the U.S. and Oxford University Press in the U.K.http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=60312