Are you prepared to pay a subscription for your news? According to Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation many subscribers to the on-line Wall Street Journal already are.
The bloggers are going bonkers with this story and the comments are flowing in.
http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/903901/Rupert-Murdoch-charge-online-content/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2009/may/07/rupert-murdoch-internet
General consensus is that he's completely barking to even make the audacious suggestion. I can't see it working myself. There are too many places you can get your news today. In the past, some websites required you to register (The Guardian, for example) and even that was a pain. They've since dropped that idea. There is simply too much competition for sources of news and news groups have to face up to the fact that sales of newspapers are dropping and they have to build a website that complements the hard copy, then they have to raise cash in other ways.
Desktop RSS feed anyone?
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Friday, 8 May 2009
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