25 April 2011

SLOVAKIA: Publishers Plan One Monthly Fee For Web Sites Access.

NYTIMES/ E.Pfanner

   In Slovakia, publishers in May will bundle their Web sites together-- copying cable TV's business model with one monthly payment for all networks, news channels and talk shows.
   For €2.90/$4.20 usd per month...users get full access to the Web sites of two leading broadsheets, SME and Pravda...with the sites of business and sports newspapers, magazines, a TV network, online video portals and a media news service included.
     Most sites have been free.
     Their avowed goal is to turn 5%-15% of Slovakia's four million Internet users...into paying customers...by 2015.