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By: Terry Howard

Terry Howard — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:47:12 +0000

All this will do is give the smaller, lighter, smarter publishers of free ad-supported content an enormous boost in readership. Do they not see the drastic trend in consumers as a result of the economic climate to reduce personal costs, cut frivolous expenses and seek cheap and free alternatives? There has been a marked spike in the amount of people who have cut their cable TV, what could possibly make them think people want to pay to read online articles? Their plan could not be implemented at a worse time in history. .-= Terry Howard´s last blog ..Commissioner Infantini Wrong on Parking Meters =-.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:06:47 +0000

Wow, now that is the way to get people to go back to reading newspapers. I am amazed it is still free to use email services like hotmail etc.

By: broomhaj (Jason)

broomhaj (Jason) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:06:47 +0000

Another Media Giant Says Paid Content on the Way (http://tinyurl.com/o5la9a)

By: vikram

vikram — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:10:45 +0000

i agree with you adam paid content is unavoidable but the real good content will shake the server in a better way and regularly

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:27:03 +0000

Paid content sure is unavoidable. With all the hype is social media about paid votes, still its going on but silently.

By: eumrezi (Aleksandar Klickovic)

eumrezi (Aleksandar Klickovic) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:24:08 +0000

Another Media Giant Says Paid Content on the Way: Remember not so long ago when Rupert Murdoch was espousing the.. http://tinyurl.com/o5la9a

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:58:32 +0000

Frank,

You nailed it when you said “While I may listen to a song a hundred times I won’t revisit content the same way. A song at less than a buck is a great value. An article at any price? Not so sure”…

Even if all the top media publishers slap some fee on their content, and the AP charges anyone who posts more than 5 words (that one is going to be fun to watch unfold), what’s to stop some entrepreneurial site owner from paying for the content then making it freely available, and thus capturing all the disgruntled readers?

I’m sure there will be some people willing to pay for some content, yet it’s crazy to think enough will do so to please the old-school publishers who are still living in the Wall Street big growth expectations world. Then what?
.-= Alan Bleiweiss´s last blog ..Six Rules for Custom eCommerce SEO =-.