paidContent: Taking The Plunge: How Newspaper Sites That Charge Are Faring
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 11:50 via Delicious/martinstabe
PaidContent surveys the results so far of smaller US newspapers that are experimenting with paid-for online content: "online-only subscriptions are typically priced at a substantial discount to the print edition ... where numbers are available, the number of online subscribers is still a tiny percentage of their print counterparts (less than 5 percent); and many of these papers say they began charging not so much to make money online, but rather to protect sales of their print editions." Read More...
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