Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Should newspapers charge for online content

Daily Gawker offers an analysis of Bill Keller's comments about the New York Times possibly charging for content here, saying it's a good idea -- especially if it were joined by other newspapers. I totally concur. It seems to me that a good business model could be constructed following the path of a couple of newspapers already (the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, for example) already has only some content online with the rest available only to print subscribers.

My business model would be the strongest local news presence possible online, including news blogs, but features, columns and the like available only to print subscribers (or, perhaps, by subscription only). Go for it guys.

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