Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Paying for online news

Martin Sorrell has called it "very strange" and "bizarre" that online newspapers offer their content for free. I agree with him, I am willing to pay for quality content that I value and trust. However this only represents perhaps 10 percent of the news that I consume. There is nothing more annoying then having to subscribe to a newspaper, even if the subscription is free, when you are just following a link from a blog. I visit hundreds of articles a month from an eclectic and unusual variety of publications that I have never head of before and will probably never visit again. I would be happy to pay an annual fee to an aggregator service that gave me access to articles from every newspaper in the world on one passport type ID - Get to work Google !

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