Comments on: David Simon and newspapers have pay walls backwards: Pay for today, set archives free http://trueslant.com/paulsmalera/2009/07/21/david-simon-and-newspapers-have-pay-walls-backwards-pay-for-today-set-archives-free/ [Please go to 'Settings' to change your Tagline] Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:07:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Smalera - Living Through 1500 – Boston Globe maybe takes my advice, will start charging for website - True/Slant http://trueslant.com/paulsmalera/2009/07/21/david-simon-and-newspapers-have-pay-walls-backwards-pay-for-today-set-archives-free/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Paul Smalera - Living Through 1500 – Boston Globe maybe takes my advice, will start charging for website - True/Slant Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:39:39 +0000 http://trueslant.com/paulsmalera/?p=289#comment-72 [...] micropayments and iTunes models for magazine content, I think there is a case to be made that they might work in a newspaper environment, where news is a valuable, time-sensitive commodity. But setting up a paywall has to be done just [...] [...] micropayments and iTunes models for magazine content, I think there is a case to be made that they might work in a newspaper environment, where news is a valuable, time-sensitive commodity. But setting up a paywall has to be done just [...]

]]> By: Paul Smalera http://trueslant.com/paulsmalera/2009/07/21/david-simon-and-newspapers-have-pay-walls-backwards-pay-for-today-set-archives-free/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Paul Smalera Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:17:17 +0000 http://trueslant.com/paulsmalera/?p=289#comment-46 misterb, I think you're right about the hedline/lede being free- I'm not suggesting the sites turn papers into a black box for 24 hours, only that they preserve the meat of their stories for subscribers. Even if I wasn't a subscriber, I would pay 25 cents to read a scoop online as long as the newspapers used a wide-ranging payment method like Paypal or Google, kept signup barriers low, and let me pay, as I do at the newsstand, one day at a time. I think in this way you turn aggregators filching your content into working *for* you rather than undermining you-- let them excerpt and analyze, but as long as they send the reader your way, even if only a small percentage are being converted to payers, you're ahead of where you were. misterb, I think you’re right about the hedline/lede being free- I’m not suggesting the sites turn papers into a black box for 24 hours, only that they preserve the meat of their stories for subscribers.

Even if I wasn’t a subscriber, I would pay 25 cents to read a scoop online as long as the newspapers used a wide-ranging payment method like Paypal or Google, kept signup barriers low, and let me pay, as I do at the newsstand, one day at a time.

I think in this way you turn aggregators filching your content into working *for* you rather than undermining you– let them excerpt and analyze, but as long as they send the reader your way, even if only a small percentage are being converted to payers, you’re ahead of where you were.

]]> By: misterb http://trueslant.com/paulsmalera/2009/07/21/david-simon-and-newspapers-have-pay-walls-backwards-pay-for-today-set-archives-free/comment-page-1/#comment-45 misterb Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:03:05 +0000 http://trueslant.com/paulsmalera/?p=289#comment-45 What do you think the chances are that anyone will listen to you? I think your analysis is spot on. The downside for the newspapers is that they don't get the viral pop for their scoops, but of course, they can easily and selectively let the lede be free while the details of the story are 24-hour pay embargoed. What do you think the chances are that anyone will listen to you? I think your analysis is spot on. The downside for the newspapers is that they don’t get the viral pop for their scoops, but of course, they can easily and selectively let the lede be free while the details of the story are 24-hour pay embargoed.

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