The Tory manifesto said in vague terms that a Conservative government "would legislate to ensure trade unions use a transparent opt-in process for union subscriptions", but made no mention of the political levy.
"At Herald Sun we are selecting certain articles over next few weeks to monitor effect on subscriptions, social shares, mobile and traffic", the email says.
- Latest figures show the Guardian's iPhone app has been downloaded more than 400,000 times and has generated 67,000 active subscriptions since relaunching in January.
Please see here for a full list of the Guardian's newsletter subscriptions from across the globe.
The move has shaken up the cable industry, where HBO is one of the primary drivers of new subscriptions.
Then I turned to the back page and saw the advert from your subscriptions department offering a free Amazon voucher as an incentive.
News Corp was giving away Samsung tablets with some 12-month subscriptions in recent months.
One council member said that although the BMA was a private organisation rather than a public body, it is funded by subscriptions – typically £443 a year – from doctors working mainly within the NHS, and thus should take more account of the real-terms drop in their income in recent years.
Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of HBO's parent, Time Warner, has said Game of Thrones piracy has been "better than an Emmy" as a publicity machine which helped drive TV subscriptions".It is not as big of an issue as music in part because there is a plentiful supply of legal and free content out there," says John Enser, a partner at media law firm Olswang.
3. We will collect and use individual user details only if we have your permission or we have sensible business reasons for doing so, such as collecting enough information to manage subscriptions. 4 We will be clear in our dealings with you as to what information about you we will collect and how we will use it.
Only later, when the accounts for News Corp UK & Ireland (News UK is its equivalent shortform) appeared on the Companies House website did we discover that TNL's total revenue had reduced by £1m year-on-year with print and digital subscriptions growth offset by advertising and sold copy decline.
