{"id":739221,"date":"2013-02-25T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=225059"},"modified":"2013-02-25T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:42:15","slug":"pearson-ft-digital-subs-overtake-print-ebooks-hit-17-of-global-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739221","title":{"rendered":"Pearson: FT digital subs overtake print; ebooks hit 17% of global sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pearson released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearson.com\/news\/2013\/february\/pearson-2012-results.html?article=true\">2012 annual report<\/a> Monday. The company had worldwide revenues of \u00a36.1 billion (USD $9.2 billion).\u00a0Some digital highlights:<\/p> <ul> <li><span style=\"line-height:13px;\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/2012\/07\/27\/in-new-downturn-subscription-salvation-for-some-ad-gold-rush-for-others\/\">previously reported<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Financial Times<\/em> digital subscriptions overtook print subscriptions for the first time in 2012. The FT now has &#8220;almost 316,000&#8243; digital subscribers, compared to about 286,000 print subs, and &#8220;mobile devices now account for 30% of FT.com traffic and 15% of new subscriptions.&#8221;\u00a0The company said it expects advertising to remain weak, &#8220;with profits reflecting further actions to accelerate the shift from print to digital.&#8221; Pearson CEO John Fallon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2013\/feb\/25\/pearson-ft-sale-digital-subscriptions\">denied rumors<\/a> that the company is selling off the FT.<\/span><\/li> <li><em>The Economist<\/em> isn&#8217;t nearly as far along in the digital transition: Total print and digital circulation was 1.67 million, &#8220;of which 150,000 customers bought digital-only copies.&#8221;<\/li> <li>At Penguin, ebooks accounted for 17 percent of global book revenues, up from 12 percent in 2011, and &#8220;almost 30 percent&#8221; in the U.S., compared to 20 percent in 2011. Penguin&#8217;s total revenues worldwide were \u00a31.053 billion (USD $1.59 billion), up 1 percent over the previous year.\u00a0Global app sales were up by 200 percent, but the company didn&#8217;t break out app revenues.<\/li> <\/ul> <br \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&%23038;c=620689\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&%23038;c=620689\" \/><\/a><\/p><p><strong>Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:<\/strong><br \/>Subscriber content. <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/?utm_source=media&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=613763+pearson-ft-digital-subs-overtake-print-ebooks-hit-17-of-global-sales&utm_content=laurahowen38\">Sign up for a free trial<\/a>.<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2009\/08\/evolution-of-the-e-book-market\/?utm_source=media&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=613763+pearson-ft-digital-subs-overtake-print-ebooks-hit-17-of-global-sales&utm_content=laurahowen38\">Evolution of the E-book Market<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2011\/08\/building-a-better-paywall-strategies-for-monetizing-news-content\/?utm_source=media&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=613763+pearson-ft-digital-subs-overtake-print-ebooks-hit-17-of-global-sales&utm_content=laurahowen38\">Building a better paywall: strategies for monetizing news content<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/2013\/01\/how-new-devices-networks-and-consumer-habits-will-change-the-web-experience\/?utm_source=media&utm_medium=editorial&utm_campaign=auto3&utm_term=613763+pearson-ft-digital-subs-overtake-print-ebooks-hit-17-of-global-sales&utm_content=laurahowen38\">How to deliver the next-generation web experience<\/a><\/li><\/ul><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gigaom.feedsportal.com\/c\/34996\/f\/646446\/s\/28ef5f8f\/mf.gif?resize=1%2C1\" border='0'\/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/viral\/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&title=Pearson%3A+FT+digital+subs+overtake+print%3B+ebooks+hit+17%25+of+global+sales&link=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2F2013%2F02%2F25%2Fpearson-ft-digital-subs-overtake-print-ebooks-hit-17-of-global-sales%2F\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/res3.feedsportal.com\/images\/emailthis2.gif?w=780\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td><td valign='middle'><a href=\"http:\/\/res.feedsportal.com\/viral\/bookmark.cfm?title=Pearson%3A+FT+digital+subs+overtake+print%3B+ebooks+hit+17%25+of+global+sales&link=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2F2013%2F02%2F25%2Fpearson-ft-digital-subs-overtake-print-ebooks-hit-17-of-global-sales%2F\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/res3.feedsportal.com\/images\/bookmark.gif?w=780\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div><br\/><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/158873240936\/u\/49\/f\/646446\/c\/34996\/s\/28ef5f8f\/a2.htm\"><img src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/158873240936\/u\/49\/f\/646446\/c\/34996\/s\/28ef5f8f\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><img width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/158873240936\/u\/49\/f\/646446\/c\/34996\/s\/28ef5f8f\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"\/><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=DdECSm_YYQ0:J_ZU4jFw8T4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/DdECSm_YYQ0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearson released its 2012 annual report Monday. The company had worldwide revenues of \u00a36.1 billion (USD $9.2 billion).\u00a0Some digital highlights: As previously reported,\u00a0Financial Times digital subscriptions overtook print subscriptions for the first time in 2012. The FT now has &#8220;almost 316,000&#8243; digital subscribers, compared to about 286,000 print subs, and &#8220;mobile devices now account for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36iV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}