This should be interesting. A personal observation/opinion.
As far as I can see, the first really MAJOR attempt at pay-for... online media...
A move to financially support and convert the printed media industry into profit based information access.
The world is changing, rapidly. As television moves towards contract access (subscriptions to cable and satellite TV)... not only does the public pay for access, but pays additionally for content, through watching 20+ minutes of commercials within every broadcast hour.
Until recently, the internet has been supported by pay-for access through wired,cable or satellite access, as well as 3G and 4G... again, a contract for access.
This has left the content providers... for news, information, personal contact, and general social interaction with on-line advertising, as a major source of revenue... the pay-per-click mechanism.
The printed media... newspapers, magazines, and newsletters etc... Have found their subscription income decimated, and been forced to offer mostly free content, in order to maintain the business infrastructure.
While most printed media had offered "pay-for" content, the subscriptions to these offerings have been slow to develop, and with few exception, the existing sources have continued to allow free access to most content.
Is Google Newstand the instrument of change?... or is the internet so fluid as to bypass the pay-per-view business model? Will five years hence find us paying for what we want to know, or will we still have the (relatively) Free access that we have today?
Do you/will you pay for online newspapers, specialty interest content, and the kind of "home page" content that we get for free today?
Can the internet business model pull this off?
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my opinion/observation/cogitation only.
As far as I can see, the first really MAJOR attempt at pay-for... online media...
A move to financially support and convert the printed media industry into profit based information access.
The world is changing, rapidly. As television moves towards contract access (subscriptions to cable and satellite TV)... not only does the public pay for access, but pays additionally for content, through watching 20+ minutes of commercials within every broadcast hour.
Until recently, the internet has been supported by pay-for access through wired,cable or satellite access, as well as 3G and 4G... again, a contract for access.
This has left the content providers... for news, information, personal contact, and general social interaction with on-line advertising, as a major source of revenue... the pay-per-click mechanism.
The printed media... newspapers, magazines, and newsletters etc... Have found their subscription income decimated, and been forced to offer mostly free content, in order to maintain the business infrastructure.
While most printed media had offered "pay-for" content, the subscriptions to these offerings have been slow to develop, and with few exception, the existing sources have continued to allow free access to most content.
Is Google Newstand the instrument of change?... or is the internet so fluid as to bypass the pay-per-view business model? Will five years hence find us paying for what we want to know, or will we still have the (relatively) Free access that we have today?
Do you/will you pay for online newspapers, specialty interest content, and the kind of "home page" content that we get for free today?
Can the internet business model pull this off?
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my opinion/observation/cogitation only.
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