SubscribeNewspapers in 2019
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the current state of the newspaper industry. The Rocky Mountain News published its last edition yesterday and the San Francisco Chronicle is hanging on by a thread. And right in my own backyard, the St. Louis Post Dispatch keeps shrinking in size, staff, content, and quality. But when [...]
The Future of Newspapers – Charlie Rose
I thought this was a pretty interesting conversation about the future of newspapers. It’s almost 30 minutes long so I will recap it for those of you with a short attention span. Walter Isaacson of Time Magazine wants newspaper/magazines to use a micro-payment system to charge for online content Robert Thomson of the Wall Street [...]
Top 10 Reasons Why Publications Should Charge Readers for Online Content
I tend to disagree with my fellow free-loading cohorts. Raised on Napster, pirated software, and free access to most newspaper/magazine articles, we are a generation that tends to wonder why exactly we should pay for this stuff.
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