The editor of the Irish Daily Mirror has said he wants the title's first stand-alone Republic of Ireland website to attract half a million monthly unique users before the end of the year. The website and new e-edition of the seven-day title were launched this week, marking the first time the online version of the Irish Daily Mirror had a distinct presence separate from its UK sister paper.

The company which owns several national titles including the Mail Online, Daily Mail and Metro, reaches 36% of the UK population every week. The figure was one of many shared by Kevin Beatty, chief executive of DMG Media, who was speaking at the World Newspaper Congress in Bangkok. Beatty told the conference that by gathering audience data for the Mail Online and other digital titles in the portfolio, the company learns "50 billion things about 43 million people over a 10-day period".

The iOS reading app added a book discovery feature on Wednesday and also announced three new partnerships with the Guardian, The Atavist and ebook gifting site Livrada. The new "Explore" section of Readmill's app lets users download free ebooks from directly within the app. For now, a lot of those books are in the public domain, but Readmill is also working with publishers and independent bookstores to run limited-time promotions through the "Explore" section.

A report from EpiServer scored the performance of 12 UK news publishers and compiled a top 10 based on speed, functionality, sociability and ease of use. The Guardian's success was attributed to fast browsing, easy-to-locate stories with clear headlines and the recently launched GuardianWitness citizen journalism project, complete with iPhone and Android app. The Daily Mail, Daily Express and The Times all scored less than 50% in the study due to poor delivery of news via a mobile website.

The initial complaint dubbed the timepiece "inaccurate and misleading" as users would assume that it displays the correct time. It was concluded that the BBC's management should "remedy the situation" within a reasonable time frame and "ensure due accuracy in all its output". The analogue-style clock, which appears in the top-left corner of the website, has been part of the BBC homepage since its 2010 redesign.

Archant has suspended the publication of six monthly magazines. Its Life titles in Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Herefordshire & Wye Valley, Wiltshire and the North East will cease after their June editions. The Norwich-based publisher blamed current economic conditions for its decision to stop printing the magazines. Their websites will continue to offer content. Archant executive Miller Hogg said the company hopes to relaunch the titles once the economy picks up again. Some job losses, maybe as many as 19, are likely.

The subscription music-streaming service Napster has revealed its aims to boost its subscriptions by fivefold in three years to at least five million, as part of its efforts to expand its offering throughout Europe to take on Spotify. Rhapsody International-owned service, which costs around EUR10 per month, is currently offered in 14 additional countries in Europe, which include France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Rhapsody president Jon Irwin was cited by Bloomberg as saying that the music-streaming service has about one million subscribers in the US, UK and Germany.

France's culture minister has accused Amazon of unfair competitive business practices, calling the firm "a destroyer of bookshops". Socialist Aurlie Filippetti said: "everyone has had enough of Amazon, which, through dumping practices, shatters prices in order to penetrate markets in order to then re-increase prices once it has gained a quasi-monopoly situation". "The book and reading sector has been in competition with certain sites using all possibilities to get into the French and European book market," the minister was quoted as saying by news agency AFPand French newspaper Le Monde.

For newsrooms producing video, having a strong presence on YouTube is usually a key part of the strategy. But how do you move from just pushing out video on the platform to building an engaged community around it? Russia Today seems to have found the right formula for them, as it celebrated reaching a billion views on YouTube this week. The government-funded broadcaster, which describes itself as an "autonomous non-profit organisation", arrived on YouTube in 2007.

Social media is once again shirking legal responsibility as the mainstream media remains quietly on the sidelines, with the identities of a couple involved in a mysterious affair linked directly to the top of 10 Downing Street going unreported by traditional outlets. The affair itself has been described as a "complete mess" with legalities preventing the mainstream media from reporting in full. In that case, somebody really should let Twitter know.