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AOL Tries to Get Customers to Pay for Content |
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The New York Times (reg. req.) publishes a news analysis piece on AOL Time Warner's recent decision to shift strategy and charge a variety of fees for some of their large library of content (Free Content Online? Publishers Are Divided). Once again, a distribution network attempts to succeed by favoring particular content, tying content to the pipe. The effort is unlikely to succeed, not least of all because the pricing will likely confuse many customers. There is room for fee-for-content on the Internet, but it isn't as large as AOL hopes. Slate's founding editor Michael Kinsley (who knows a thing or two about trying to make money with content on the web) has written a very insightful piece on this issue (It's Not Just the Internet: Almost no one pays for content in any medium). [via FurdLog]
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