Comments on: Murdoch: Get Ready to Pay for Our Stuff Online–But Not on a Kindle

By: valerian42

valerian42 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:45:04 +0000

Web design, and internet in general, is developing at high speed. I was expecting newspaper and other sites to ask for money when someone would like to visit their websites. :P I remember the good old days when you had to work for weeks to make a good site... everything was free... no adds or anything similar... Pfff. It's amazing how many Web content management systems you can find now... thinks are moving faster than we are expecting... hard to keep track of all these changes.

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Mon, 11 May 2009 04:59:46 +0000

[...] the economy is still dire, “The Worst Is Over.” He also noted that although he plans to extend WSJ’s online pay model to his strongest properties soon, News Corp. will not be selling any of its content via the Kindle, as some of its competitors [...]

By: A Note for Ruper Murdoch: “Content” has been overvalued on the basis of Distribution | TechFold

Fri, 08 May 2009 17:48:25 +0000

[...] questions Murdoch’s digital strategy and the “danger” of getting locked into a single platform – as the music industry has [...]

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Fri, 08 May 2009 02:17:13 +0000

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By: Murdoch: No more free lunch, and no Kindle love | csmonitor.com

Murdoch: No more free lunch, and no Kindle love | csmonitor.com — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:24:48 +0000

[...] Peter Kafka points out for the Journal’s Media Memo, that ratio – 70 percent to the publisher, 30 percent to the content provider – is the inverse [...]

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:40:31 +0000

Yup. Which is why every entertainment subscription service has always tried to get itself embedded with cable or telco. But those guys have been reluctant to sign on — though they might very well do one of their own some day. See, for instance, Time Warner and Comcast’s online video plans.

At the same time, note the ever-present drumbeat of complaints about cable’s bundling plans and who insist they want to buy their programming a la carte.

By: June Gordon

June Gordon — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:11:35 +0000

The WSJ has really been pushing the iPhone application, sending messages about it to owners and iPhone sites. I think it is because most iPhone owners are fairly well-off, as is normal for Apple’s customers.

However, there is an odd twist. Many of the iPhone participants in the WSJ forums are better educated and more liberal than the far Right, ‘don’t know much about history’ demographic that has dominated the forums. The old-timers are trying to run off the new people the iPhone app attracted out by claiming we are “on welfare.”

By: June Gordon

June Gordon — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:10:25 +0000

However, there is an odd twist. Many of the iPhone participants in the WSJ forums are better educated and more liberal than the far Right, ‘don’t know much about history’ demographic that has dominated the forums. The old-timers are trying to run the new people the iPhone app attracted out by claiming we are “on welfare.”

By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:48:00 +0000

I don’t mean the cable tv company provides this service, I meant that a service similar to the model a cable tv company uses, but I guess it could be the ISP. That’s how ESPN rolls.

By: Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn Tipling — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:46:35 +0000

360,000 downloads is nice. Our dictionary.com at Ask.com app has been downloaded 1 million times, we all got a cake. Iphone apps are hot. Anyhow I’ve always thought that the best way to monetize online content is via a third party subscription service, sort of how a cable tv company works. The subscriber pays the cable tv company for packages of various content, instead of having to give every other magazine and newspaper their credit card info and manage monthly subscriptions etc.