monetisation
We Never Sold Journalism Paid Members Public
I have a confession: the news paywall debate irritates me. It irritates me, because this discussion was had years ago, and discussed with a great deal of depth and intelligence across the emergent publishing and journalism blogosphere. And then it was promptly ignored by the majority of the publishing industry
The Problem with an iTunes for News Paid Members Public
There’s an interesting paragraph in Cory Doctorow’s review [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/28/cory-doctorow-free-chris-anderson] of Chris Anderson’s new book Free [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1905211473?ie=UTF8&tag=fishnefedora-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&
Why Lionel Barber & Paid News are a Distraction Paid Members Public
Oh, dearie me. I have a feeling that the issue of paywalls and charging for content is going to dominate the online journalism discussion for the rest of the summer, isn’t it? The Guardian has run a piece onFinancial Times editor Lionel Barber [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/
#newsinnovation : New News Business Models Paid Members Public
Kindle: the problem is not technological but business. 70:30 split between Amazon and publishers. Nobody can afford to do that right now. Kevin sees the iPhone, with its new ability for in-app charging more interesting. The Kindle isn’t social, as someone in the crowd pointed out.Some discussion
Journalism Enterprise & Entrepreneurship Camp: Live Paid Members Public
Today, in Birmingham, a whole group of journalists is meeting, discussing new journalism models. You can follow proceedings [live on the Online Journalism Blog](http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/05/08/jeecamp09-live-coverage/). Other coverage is being aggregated on [the JeeCamp site](http://journalismenterprise.com/jeecamp/).
Death of News Media Announced (Please Send Flowers) Paid Members Public
To add to the gathering clouds, Brian [http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/comments/clay_shirky_on_newspaper_doom/] linked to this neatly-argued augury of DOOM [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/] (as did everybody else, as half an hour in my feed reader proved): > The
The Best Way to Open Content Paywalls? Paid Members Public
I just stumbled across this, and have planted it firmly in my “things I didn’t know, but find really interesting” pile – the WSJ’s old free content model [http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/03/my-two-cents-on-charging-for-content.html] : > But what WSJ.com used to do was to
Some Good Reading About The Future of News Paid Members Public
Good stuff I’ve read recently, haven’t linked to yet, but don’t have much to add to right now: * The Nichepaper Manifesto [http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/07/the_nichepaper_manifesto.html] – an articulate and well argued guide to how niche publishing might looks going forwards. * Media