Ryan Chittum of Columbia Journalism Review writes Wednesday about the success of The Wall Street Journal‘s iPad application, which now has 10,000 subscribers.
“And the app is free right now for subscribers to WSJ.com. So a total of 64,000 people use it. It seems likely that the paper will eventually charge WSJ.com subscribers to use the iPad app, too.
“But there are also ads to consider. The Journal itself reported in March that the paper had six advertisers signed up for four-month ad packages costing $400,000 apiece (something I questioned and got confirmed here). That’s at least $2.4 million for the first four months of the app. I’m skeptical that pace can be sustained, but if it is that would put total combined revenue (using the 10,000 subscribers number) at nearly $10 million a year. That’s real money, especially for such a new product.
“It’s surely not all net, but most of it is. It costs some money to develop and maintain the app, but — and this is a critical point — the Journal is keeping all of the revenue itself.”
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