Printed Matters: Paywall madness: Dec. 2008 – Feb. 2009
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Tim Burden has a nice roundup of the recent spate of articles proposing various schemes for introducing paid content at US newspaper sites.
Category Archives: itunes
Slate: Not all information wants to be free
Jack Shafer: "Not all successful paid sites are alike, but they all share at least one of these attributes: 1) They are so amazing as to be irreplaceable. 2) They are beautifully designed and executed and extremely easy to use. 3) They are stupendously authoritative."
Time: The Race for a Better Read
Josh Quittner: "Before old media can charge for our content, we have to figure out how to deliver it in a way the reader thinks is worth paying for."
Teaching Online Journalism: Why the Las Vegas Sun is so great (Part 2)
"It’s not only [the 988 pixels wide] size that sets Las Vegas Sun video apart; it’s the options. Download a version for your iPod. Or download the HDTV/720p version and watch it really big in your living room. ... Subscribe to videos (or photos) via RSS (lots of options there). And yeah, they’re in iTunes. And on YouTube."