Comments on: Steve Brill wants to try charging for content online… again

By: The slow death of newspapers « anygenrebooks.com

The slow death of newspapers « anygenrebooks.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:01:12 +0000

[...] Lawyer, Court TV and Contentville – the last an early failure in the paid-content wars – has unveiled something called Journalism Online. The idea is that users will be able to choose from a variety of [...]

By: Bill Densmore

Bill Densmore — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:02:12 +0000

Give Brill et al. a chance to really articulate their model. A wholesale-retail content exchange where pricing is completely the province of the content provider at the wholesale side, and the retail seller on the consumer side, could work and could really enable a free market for digital information. Right now we have third parties in spades — they are iTunes and Google. It’s time to open up the market to many competitors … and Brill’s core idea — done right, could do that. Full disclosure: I founded a company — Clickshare Service Corp. — which has a patent in this area, so I’m ***really*** biased.

By: OOF « HONESTLY.

OOF « HONESTLY. — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:57:10 +0000

[...] 3,543 hits OOF April 23, 2009, 1:56 am Filed under: I’LL MAKE THIS QUICK, THE FUTURE Prepare for the onslaught of hyper-spazzing media buzz about this. [...]

By: Emily Sussman

Emily Sussman — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:19:25 +0000

Oof. Third-parties are sooooo 1999. And we all know what happened with that.

By: Dan Kennedy: Newspapers won’t be saved by charging for content online

Dan Kennedy: Newspapers won’t be saved by charging for content online — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:57:53 +0000

By: De balkanisering van het web « De nieuwe reporter

De balkanisering van het web « De nieuwe reporter — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:57:19 +0000

[...] heeft het web de papieren krant al lang verslagen. Geen wonder dat iedereen opeens weer praat over betalen voor online nieuws. Een tweede, evenmin spectaculaire conclusie van het onderzoek: mensen lezen niet alleen politiek [...]

By: Newspapers must grow their online news market share. Can they? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:15:42 +0000

[...] are solutions, and the time to act is now. But to begin with (and the thinking of Stephen Brill notwithstanding) newspapers are in no position to charge for content, with the possible exception [...]

By: Tim WIndsor

Tim WIndsor — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:03:48 +0000

It’s like you’re sitting on a bench, listening to a guy you’ve just met describe how he came to live in the park. It sounds improbable, but technically possible. The job vanishes. The wife shacks up with the gardener. The business associate turns out to be a scoundrel. The investments were ill-placed.

And then, bam! “Plus, the aliens stole my dog. Scooped him up with their tractor beam.”

As you edge away, you realize the whole story is likely an addled, waking reverie.

I got the same feeling when I got to the part above about the pass-along fees. Really, Steve? Part of your Plan To Save The Business includes charging users to do your marketing for you?

With respect to the man who once created an incredibly readable magazine for media junkies, that ideas is just, um, nutty.

By: Jeffrey McManus

Jeffrey McManus — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:14:16 +0000

Five cents per article? You can buy a whole dang newspaper for 25 cents, printed out on a dead tree and dropped on your doorstep by a guy in a station wagon!

This idea is dead on arrival.

By: Zachary M. Seward

Zachary M. Seward — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:50:30 +0000

I’ll reserve judgment on the venture itself, but the most irritating thing about it is the name! Journalism Online? You can’t refer to it without immediately stumbling into confusion. “Oh, yeah, I’m no fan of Journalism Online. It’ll never work.” Also, it’s just kind of dreadfully uncreative for a supposedly forward-looking initiative. —Zach

By: Steve Brill wants to charge for news… again

Steve Brill wants to charge for news… again — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:55:53 +0000

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