[...] but mostly the latter. Previous experiments with paywalls saw audiences drop between 60 and 97%. And you also have to figure in that a paywall will likely make content invisible to search engines [...]

[...] which ones don’t. It’s never as simple as ‘Paywalls don’t work’. History may suggest it’s not a gamble that’s likely to pay off, but there may still be a black swan out [...]

[...] which ones don’t. It’s never as simple as ‘Paywalls don’t work’. History may suggest it’s not a gamble that’s likely to pay off, but there may still be a black swan out [...]

[...] income from readers won’t make up the difference. Tim Windsor weighs in with a comment noting an earlier column he wrote at the Nieman Journalism Lab documenting that traffic declines after the imposition of pay walls at could be on the order of [...]

[...] This post by Tim Windsor is a few months old but more timely than ever. He linked to it in a comment on Dan’s blog and I gladly remind you of it: Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004. [...]

[...] has been tried since the beginning of the internet boom. One notable failure was Salon. There are countless others, and a lot of discussion about micropayments and their problems. While I think that mixing [...]

[...] Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004 Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future o…: Good look at the failures of the Paid Content model: LAT, and the Albuquerque Journal. End with a reminder: just because Editors think that they are entitled to make money from content, it doesn’t… [...]

[...] a two-year run, even though it was taking in $10 million a year. The latimes.com set free its CalendarLive section of arts, reviews, and listings in May 2005 after a 21-month paid experiment. To name [...]

[...] Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004 – Nieman Journalism Lab "Given the recent secret memos and TIME cover stories, the topic of “paid content” has once again grabbed the spotlight, offering at least a slim hope of revenue redemption to some newspaper people — largely on the print side, but with some notable digital advocates as well." (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites paidcontent journalism business trends) [...]

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[...] Will paid content work? Two cautionary tales from 2004 Talven kestopuheenaihe jatkuu: miten uutisjournalismin sisällöstä voitaisiin saada netissä maksullinen tuote vai voidaanko lainkaan. "In other words, if my local paper goes paid tomorrow, there are at least four television stations with web sites that would be happy to take its turn-away traffic." (tags: journalism newspapers mediabisnes) [...]

As an MBA student, I inquired about a WSJ student subscription. I was told that if I wanted it, I could get the print newspaper *for free* with an online subscription. Furthermore, it was cheaper to get this online subscription (with free Journal) than to simply get a print subscription. So why not? I found myself reading the print WSJ at the kitchen table as much as at my laptop.

The interesting thing is that the pricing was fully aligned to the value perception. Online was valuable. Print was not, or much less so (for students at least).

[...] to a post on an NYT blog. And LostRemote’s blogger emeritus Steve Safran is sharing some good info with his facebook posse that harken one of the last times we hashed this out (Rafat didn’t [...]