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Originally Posted by tony404
If they all do it. traffic may drop but then it will come back.People are going to have to be reeducated. As we know free doesn't work as a business model.
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Free does work as a business model. Subscriptions work as a business model. Hybrids work as a business model.
Most newspapers simply are not worth the price they try to charge online and will not make the transistion to subscription sales when their LOCAL (tv, radio) competition will give the information away for free.
It is much easier to work as a free model -- even the WSJ gives away almost all of it's content online for free to get traffic.