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Don't be a free user
Pinboard creator explains why paying for stuff you like is a good thing
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Postmedia to charge for more content
Canada's biggest newspaper published will be introducing a metered pay model to more of its news sites
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Subscriber surprise
The New York Times offers digital subscribers an exclusive, inside baseball story newsletter
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Did Bloomberg Businesswek find the right price
Based on reviews for the iPad app, the $2.99/week cost is just fine
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Paywalls or memberships
Interesting look at how The New York Times could look to NPR for money-earning ideas
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Reading and paying for news
Within days of the The New York Times pay-fence being unveiled, a number of reports about the well-being of the newspaper industry in Canada have been released. The sources, are, as usual, biased, but do present some interesting details.
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Meetup's paywall reality check
The company erased 95% of its activity when it started charging, but now the move is paying-off handsomely
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A deep look at Ongo
The suscription-based breaking news service launched by some newspapers has a intriguing strategy
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The history of free
An early online news pioneer explains why the media couldn't charge for content in the beginning days
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iPolitics launches
Subscription-based, HTML5-powered site covers the Canadian political scene (and quotes Abraham Lincoln)
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Times' lost millions
The London Times' paywall experiment has cost them traffic, and likely a lot of revenue
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Paying for the news in a digital world
News publishers are struggling to establish a viable revenue stream in the digital realm as it becomes their paying online audience alone can’t support the entire product.
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Emerging business strategies
The 3-year deal FiveThirtyEight struck with The New York Times suggests a new business option for micro-content companies
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The commonplace book
Steve Johnson delivers another outstanding piece on the presentation of information online
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Gaining pay walls and losing page views
Sometimes, it pays to have list people clicking more pages as more online publications are finding.
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The pay wall around research
Companies like Forrester could be the next to see their business model change
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NYTimes.com readies the paywall
New York Magazine suggest the plan could be announced in weeks
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Repositioning the news
Something is in the air on the second day of National Newspaper Week, as two major Canadian media sites redesigned along with one American blog. Meanwhile, the Economist thickened its pay-wall and Canwest is seeking bankruptcy protection.
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Making the free model work
Some advice on building a successful business publishing online content free
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Ready to pay the price
Advertisers and readers may finally be ready to see the online medium as a place worthy of paying for.
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Rupert Murdoch to charge for news sites
Wants a "a company-wide effort to establish a new economic model to profitably transition [News Corp.'s] print properties to digital"
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