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Another Paywall Experiment Ends Badly
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| I could have taken my last post and just
| changed the words âJohnston Pressâ to âFreedom
| Communications,â but that would be too cheeky.
| Instead Iâll just link over to Paid Content,
| who reports that another large media publisher
| has decided to end its paywall experiment.
| This time itâs Freedom Communications, who
| tested a full paywall at the Valley Morning
| Star, a small town newspaper in Texas. Today,
| there is a banner on the site that says âWe
| Moved Back to a Completely Free Site.â
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http://blog.newscred.com/?p=299
No linking to Japanese newspaper without permission
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| We've definitely entered an era of experiment
| when it comes to online content, as a number
| of publications with a tradition in the print
| world are testing out approaches like building
| paywalls, mixing free and paid content, and
| limiting the amount of content that's indexed
| by search engines.
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http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/04/links-no-thanks-were-the-nikkei.ars
Recent:
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
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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