For Fee Content: John Dvorak of PC Magazine reported that there is a rumour that CNet is thinking about changing from advertising-based to for-fee subscription-based. Ouch. Web users tend not to buy what they can get elsewhere, and as Dvorak points out, there is lots of technology news sites. He reviews the options for content providers. Mostly it's a mix of all free to free and for-fee to fully for-fee. The only radical suggestion is that all content should cost money and be collected as a web-access fee. Why not adopt micro-fees - a small microcent charge for viewing significant content pages ?
Rethinking Content on the Web John Dvorak. (July 22, 2002) PC Magazine
Posted by Gwen at July 23, 2002 11:20 AM