Baba Shetty Addresses the Skeptics

'There are going to be lots of pivots'

The Huffington Post gave up on charging for its tablet magazine after just five issues. News Corp.’s The Daily got only 100,000 subscribers, despite heavy promotional support from Apple and an A-list staff of journalists. 

Yet Baba Shetty, who’s taking Newsweek into the great unknown by killing its print edition, is nonetheless banking on the brand getting “several hundreds of thousands” of subscribers to its planned digital edition next year.

Newsweek only has 44,000 digital subscribers for its tablet edition today, compared to a print circulation of 1.5

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