Newspapers and the WWW

Newspaper's adoption and leverage of the WWW continues with some interesting stats from a recent Bivings Group report on American newspapers:''

• 75% of newspapers now accept comments on articles, up from 33% in 2007.


• 100% adoption of RSS feeds.
  


• 92% of newspapers now include buttons to bookmark articles in social bookmarking systems like Delicious or Digg, up from 7% in 2006.


• The brief experiment with required online registration is over. The number of websites requiring registration to view most content (free or paid) has decreased to 11%, compared to 29% in 2007 and 23% in 2006.


• 20% offer chatting options and 40% now offer SMS alerts.

More: http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/the-use-of-the-internet-by-americas-largest-newspapers-2008-edition/

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Big Changes for Big Papers: In 2008 The Web Changed the Media For Good - ReadWriteWeb