Yesterday saw Guardian News & Media announce its latest financials: a loss of £44.2m in 2011, despite digital revenues growing by 16.3% to £45.7m. Plans to seek 70-100 voluntary redundancies from journalists and speculation about the group’s digital-first strategy have understandably been the focus of most coverage of the news. There was a stat on The Guardian’s iPad app, though: it now has 17,000 subscribers paying £9.99 a month, meaning it’s generating revenues (after Apple’s cut) of £1.4m. Which is a number rival newspaper publishers can work with as they try to calculate the likely return on investment in apps.