News International has added almost 30,000 paying digital subscribers to its Times and Sunday Times websites and apps in the past four months, according to new figures released by the publisher today.

The two titles attracted 79,000 paying digital-only subscribers at the end of February, up from just under 50,000 at the end of October, an increase of almost 60 per cent.

This includes subscribers to the digital sites as well as to The Times iPad app and the Kindle edition. On top of the digital-only subscribers, News International said there were an additional 149,000 joint print/digital subscribers to the two papers combined.