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Time(s) for the weekend papers... Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/12/DD8813C0-9AF6-455E-8EE8-EDFFD42557511.jpg] Time for a little Times update, as it were. The last time we spoke about it [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/11/on_those_times_paywall_numbers.html] , I was considering dumping either my Times online
Paywalls and the problem of competition Paid Members Public
Clay Shirky has brought forth another long piece on the economics of the paywall business [http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/11/the-times-paywall-and-newsletter-economics/] that’s worth a read. I’d just like to highlight a single sentence, though, as I think it’s a point that’s missed far too
Paywall Quote of the Day Paid Members Public
George Brock [http://georgebrock.net/the-times-paywall-numbers-what-counts-for-what/]: > A prediction: in a year or two, paywall knowledge and software will have advanced so far that we will look back to this point and marvel that anything as crude as a fixed-price, 100% paywall was even thought of.Indeed.
On those Times paywall numbers Paid Members Public
I am surprised by the amount of positive reaction that’s going around to the news that The Times has around 105,000 paying online customers of various stripes. (Full break-down of the numbers.) Partially I’m surprised, because nobody seems to be comparing acquisition cost to revenue, as well
#likeminds - Guy Clapperton Shows Us The Money Paid Members Public
[![Guy Clapperton](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/10/guyclapperton-thumb-520x346-1750.jpg?resize=520%2C346)](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/10/guyclapperton.jpg) [Guy Clapperton](http://homepage.mac.com/guyclapperton/Personalpage), author of [This is Social Media: Tweet, Blog, Link and Post
Low tech solutions to paywall problems Paid Members Public
I confess: for all my “meh” about paywalls, I currently have paid access to The Times’ new websites. There are a couple of bloggers I actively miss, and think *might *be worth the money. Yesterday, I spotted this on Ruth Gledhill’s blog [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/
Good News/Bad News from KPMG Paid Members Public
The Bad: > KPMG has found that 81% of UK “would go elsewhere for content [http://rd.kpmg.co.uk/mediareleases/22369.htm] if a previously free site we use frequently began charging”. Only 19% would be willing to pay in the UK, while globally (the same research looked at