Charging for Access to News Sites

daringfireball.net by John Gruber | Jul. 22, 2009 (Opinion)

Undeniably, there is money to be made in digital publishing with free reader access, but whether that revenue leads to profits depends upon the scale and scope of the organization. The potential revenue does not appear to be of the magnitude that will support the massive operations of existing news organizations. Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech, Media
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Jul 22, 2009 - 6:40 AM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Jul 22, 2009 - 6:49 AM PDT

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 by Stephen Babcock - Jul. 22, 2009

The Internet business is different than the newspaper business. Good point. Replace newspaper execs with...no one? Not so sure. Even Joshua Micah Marshall reserves the right to pull the trigger.

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