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| Authored by: kg on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:01 PM EST |
The issue of revenues is something that publishers will have
to face increasingly, particularly when it comes to
newspapers. I find it interesting that the NYT's limited
access policy (10 articles per month) seems not to apply to
inbound Google links. That is, you still can read the
article when clicking a link from Google, even after you hit
your limit. So for the NYT, free qualified visits are more
important than up-front subscriptions.
Personally, I find the discussion very interesting. The
assertion of copyright over fair use is short-sighted and
worthy of the DMCA.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 01:13 AM EST |
Traditional newspapers are no longer newspapers, they are historypapers. By the
time they are printed the news is over. News is real time, ie web. Their focus
needs to change to the analysis of the news and the in depth coverage that is
too long for the attention span of the web.
Tufty
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| Authored by: symbolset on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 02:09 AM EST |
If Germany institutes a tax on links to websites in their country, then the site
in Germany are no longer "the world's information" and shouldn't be
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 06:40 AM EST |
Does the proposed law just apply to servers in Germany, or just to readers in
Germany, or what?
Lots of people seem to be assuming that it only applies to "German
publishers", but I don't believe the law would discriminate in that
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 08:40 PM EST |
The basic problem for print media is that it takes a different business model to
succeed on the internet than it does to succeed in print and all print media
personnel is geared to the print model not the internet model.
Look at any major news paper. The paper is geared to having something in it for
everybody and being physically distributed in a small confined space.
Now look at a successful internet operation SlashDot will do. It is geared to
covering one and only one basic topic. computers, and is distributed world wide
at zero cost.
In general there is insufficient local news except in big cities to support one
decent blog much less a news paper. In order to over come this deficiency state,
national, and international news is added. The only problem with this concept on
the internet is now every news paper is competing with every other news paper
and blog where as before the paper could reap monopoly rent being the only
source of news in town. That is no longer the case and there monopoly rent on
world news is no longer something the print media personnel has yet to discover.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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