geert lovink on Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:03:53 +0200 (CEST)


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[Nettime-nl] het hoe en wat van betalen voor content


Beste nettime-nl,

ik zou het goed vinden als we gezamelijk zouden kunnen uitvinden wat voor
soort modellen er zijn om freelancers te betalen voor hun werk en
tegelijkertijd er een vrije uitwisseling van informatie kan blijven bestaan.
Is dit een onverkomelijke contradictie? In plaats van nieuwssites te sluiten
en iedereen op straat te zetten kan er volgens mij beter geexperimenteerd
gaan worden met electronische betalingssystemen, al dan niet onafhankelijk
van credit cards.

Geert

De Amerikaanse website Salon is volgende die deuren sluit voor gratis
content:

http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2001/10/01/premium_news/index.html

    Oct. 1, 2001 | Starting today Salon will begin publishing virtually
    all of its News and Politics articles in our Premium edition. This
    means that if you don't already subscribe to Salon Premium, you will
    need to do so in order to keep reading Salon's coverage of the Bush
    administration and the current global crisis.

    [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/business/media/02SALO.html

October 2, 2001
Salon, Magazine on the Web, Will Charge Readers of News
By FELICITY BARRINGER

The Web magazine Salon, facing sharply lower advertising revenues and
increased costs for gathering news, has decided to make its news and
political coverage available only to paying subscribers.
The goal, said David Talbot, the editor of the six-year-old magazine, is to
rely on circulation revenue for half of next year's $7.5 million budget.
That goal, an ambitious one by the standard of any magazine, print or
online, is an indication of the unremittingly sour climate for Web
advertising.
Another high-profile online site, Steven Brill's Contentville, quit
business on Friday, leaving its 15 employees without jobs. In an e-mail
message to the staff, Mr. Brill said, "Despite the great work of the
Contentville staff and the great support we had from our partners, my idea
for Contentville just didn't work." Contentville allowed readers to go to
one site to find and purchase articles from a variety of newspapers and
magazines, as well as books, dissertations and other sources.
[...]




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