11 September 2009

Charging For Online Content: A Lot Of Ideas, Little Action.

NYTIMES.
Are the days of "The Hypervigant Observer" giving FREE news summaries AND hyperlinks numbered?
“There is no unanimity among publishers about what to do — whether to charge for content, how to charge, whose solutions to use — and most people in the business still don’t believe they can put up a pay wall without repelling a large part of their audience,” said Alan D. Mutter, a media entrepreneur and consultant. “I doubt you’re going to see a lot of companies spend a lot of money building a system for the newspaper industry as long as there’s no resolve on the part of the industry about what they want to do.”