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After Three Months, Newsday's Grand Paywall Experiment Has 35 Paying Customers. Yes, 35.
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| Like many, we were amazed at the decision
| by Cablevision to try charging $5 per week
| (yes, per week) for its paywall to Newsday
| content online. The newspaper itself is
| not particularly good and doesn't really
| provide all that much in the way of excess
| value compared to what else is out there.
| And $5/week is extremely high. Yet, even
| so, we're a bit surprised that after three
| months, the paper has a grand total of 35
| paying subscribers. Yes, 35. I'm sure that
| extra $175/week comes in quite handy. Oh
| right, they also saved on the salary of
| their popular columnist who quit, rather
| than have his work hidden behind a
| paywall.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100126/1515217905.shtml
Daily Mirror Blocks NewsNow; Will It Start Paying Its Own Sources?
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| We've already described how ridiculously
| hypocritical it is for various newspapers
| to block UK aggregator service NewsNow
| from linking to their articles in its paid
| subscription service, but apparently it's
| a difficult concept for some to grasp. The
| UK's Daily Mirror has now started blocking
| access to NewsNow's crawlers, claiming
| that its only problem is the fact that
| NewsNow makes money off subscriptions. If
| it wasn't making any money, the paper
| wouldn't have a problem.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100127/0454137915.shtml
The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist?
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| As Scott said 90 years ago: "What a chance
| for the newspaper!" If we turn our back on
| all this and at the same time conclude
| that there is nothing to learn from it
| because what 'they' do is different â 'we
| are journalists, they aren't: we do
| journalism; they don't' â then, never mind
| business models, we will be sleep walking
| into oblivion.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/25/cudlipp-lecture-alan-rusbridger
What's A Bigger Entitlement Mentality? Demanding Old Business Models Must Remain... Or Liking Free Stuff?
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| Apparently times are hard over at ECN
| Magazine. Rather than come up with
| compelling content to draw people in, its
| Technical Editor decided to pen the mother
| of all troll-baiting editorials. NSILMike
| points us to Jason Lomberg's recent rant
| on The Internet Entitlement Mentality,
| which I think may set a record for
| repeating pretty much every long-debunked
| fallacy about online content and business
| models, as well as how it describes those
| folks who actually understand basic
| economics, and how free works as part of
| an economic ecosystem.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100119/1135047818.shtml
Recent:
Badda Bing! Microsoft woos newspapers by funding their stick to beat Google
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| As Microsoft shed its beta tag for the launch
| of the UK version of Bing today, TechCrunch
| Europe has learnt that it held a secret
| meeting with a group of big European
| publishers, mainly newspapers.
|
| The meeting came literally days after Rupoert
| Murdoch said he was considering withdrawing
| his vast newspaper empire from Googleâs index,
| despite the possibility of losing a lot of
| traffic.
|
| What was discussed provides a glimpse of what
| newspaper publishers may do next, and how Bing
| will collude in this new war on Google.
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http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/13/badda-bing-microsoft-woos-newspapers-by-funding-their-stick-to-beat-google/
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