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

NYTIMES.
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“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.”