KeepMedia

KeepMedia’s Strange Quest For Hipness - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jun 2004 06:07 PM PST

I am increasingly confused about KeepMedia mission, and I’m changing my views. What is it: a digital magazines superstore where you can browse and indulge in some leisure reading, a…

KeepMedia and Topix.net Form Co-Marketing Partnership - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Apr 2004 01:04 PM PST

In a way that shows how premium content providers will try using news search engines, KeepMedia has tied up with Topix.net on a cross-marketing promotion… Visitors to Topix.net who search…

KeepMedia Launches RSS Feeds To Drive Subs - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 24 Feb 2004 04:03 AM PST

Not that big a deal in itself, except that KeepMedia is using RSS feeds to promote its subscription service (and also, heeding to my wishlist). “Linked stories [in RSS feeds]…

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Playing for Keeps: How KeepMedia Keeps Tuning a Plan for Personalized Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 23 Feb 2004 12:03 PM PST

"For now KeepMedia continues to refine its content serving capabilities for its consumer, academic and professional users and to expand its available sources… But in the race to create a…

KeepMedia As Magazine Industry’s iTunes? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 24 Jan 2004 03:01 AM PST

Joh Battele analyzes KeepMedia’s prospects...."The internet seems a perfect solution to both the circulation and distribution dilemmas. If only we could also solve the final problem: that thing I call,…

KeepMedia’s Subtle Turn - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 Jan 2004 02:01 AM PST

From the ever-informative Outsell Inc’s weekly e-mail newsletter, comes the news that KeepMedia is now positioning itself as the ”online media retailing platform” for publishers (and this is not necessarily…

Louis Borders Turns the Page. Or Does He? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 03 Jan 2004 05:01 AM PST

"To be successful with consumers, archived magazine content should be either targeted to a reader’s specific interests or so comprehensive that almost everything is available. ‘This is a solution to…

KeepMedia Adds New Titles, Including Newsweek - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 11 Nov 2003 12:12 PM PST

KeepMedia, the online library of magazines, has signed up a dozen more consumer titles in the last couple of weeks, including Newsweek, The New Republic, ComputerWorld, and all of American…

The New Digital Newsstand - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Oct 2003 08:11 AM PST

Rafe Needleman at his new gig at always-off...he writes about KeepMedia: “I believe it is this service business [where they private label their solution, like they did for Esquire] that…

KeepMedia Expands Into ASP Service, Signs on Esquire - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 12 Sep 2003 03:10 AM PST

This was to be expected: KeepMedia, the online magazine archives retailer, has expanded into an ASP service, and has signed on Esquire magazine as its first client...Esquire has re-launched its…

Peak or Valley? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 13 Aug 2003 08:08 AM PST

Despite spectacular failures, undaunted entrepreneurs persevere. Can Louis Borders’ KeepMedia succeed where others have failed? Vin Crosbie analyzes.

Author’s Guild and ASJA Investigating KeepMedia; Company Says It Is In Clear - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 07 Aug 2003 02:08 AM PST

The Author’s Guild and American Society of Journalists and Authors are conducting an exploratory investigation of whether KeepMedia has properly acquired the electronic rights to freelance works that it’s making…

KeepMedia Review 2: The Wish List - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 01 Aug 2003 05:08 AM PST

Hopefully, KeepMedia will continue adding features...right now the feature set is, well, ordinary...nothing more than what sites like NYTimes.com and IHT.com offer...search is a powerful tool, but at times we…

KeepMedia Review 1: The Magazine Industry’s Self Cannibalization Worries - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 01 Aug 2003 05:08 AM PST

Now that KeepMedia has launched, I have been testing it through a seven-day trial period: it is a decent service...not great, but a start, nonetheless. One of the biggest negatives…

KeepMedia Hopes to Attract Newspapers - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 Jul 2003 03:08 AM PST

Louis Borders is confident that he will attract newspapers for his KeepMedia service launched Monday..."There are 3,000 magazines in the U.S.,” Borders said. “We have a lot of work to…

Analysts Weigh In On KeepMedia: History is Not On Its Side - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Jul 2003 04:07 AM PST

”Outsell, a research and advisory firm that focuses on Internet content, expressed skepticism [about KeepMedia] in its weekly newsletter: “ Northern Light tried it and didn’t make it, although founder…

The Logic Behind KeepMedia - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 29 Jul 2003 12:07 PM PST

An interview with Louis Borders: “As we looked at the industry, we were scared away from music because of all the rights issues. One thing that struck us is that…

KeepMedia Site Goes Live - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Jul 2003 12:07 PM PST

KeepMedia just went live...for full list of magazines on the service, click here Am testing the service right now...pretty good. Good functions like sharing of articles through e-mail, keeping notes…

More Details on KeepMedia - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Jul 2003 05:07 AM PST

KeepMedia the online magazine archives marketplace, which launches today, will sell articles at $1 a pop, or free to current subscribers ($4.95 amonth). Users can also sign up for magazine…

The Advisory on Advisory - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jul 2003 08:08 AM PST

Hah, it’s always fun receiving media advisories...the supposed availability of expert to comment on issues of the day...especially if it is about a story you had broken and then WSJ…

Can Webvan Founder Succeed - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 21 Jul 2003 03:08 PM PST

(subscription required): So it was WSJ I trumped on this news...Read my earlier exclusive, Contentville II?: Louis Borders new Venture, on Louis Borders’ new venture KeepMedia. More details: some content…

Update on Spyglass Story: Changes Name to KeepMedia - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 30 Jun 2003 11:06 AM PST

Well, that was quick...Spyglass Media, the online content retailing venture by Louis Borders, on whom I did a story earlier today, is changing its name to KeepMedia (the site’s not…

Exclusive: Contentville II? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 30 Jun 2003 05:07 AM PST

The founder of Borders and Webvan, Louis Borders, is planning a comeback with an online content retailing solution for media industry, with his new company Spyglass Media. After being hush-hush…