Comments on: You only THINK you’re paying for content http://www.writinghurts.com/2009/05/14/you-only-think-youre-paying-for-content/ Media as a contact sport Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:59:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Advice for blogging journalists from Jamie Kelly « Pursuing the Complete Community Connection http://www.writinghurts.com/2009/05/14/you-only-think-youre-paying-for-content/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Advice for blogging journalists from Jamie Kelly « Pursuing the Complete Community Connection Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:34:53 +0000 http://www.writinghurts.com/?p=72#comment-169 [...] since then, traffic to that post has died, and instead, people are linking to this one. It’s gotten 10 times the views of the previous post and nearly all of that is from links to [...] [...] since then, traffic to that post has died, and instead, people are linking to this one. It’s gotten 10 times the views of the previous post and nearly all of that is from links to [...]

]]> By: Michael Andersen http://www.writinghurts.com/2009/05/14/you-only-think-youre-paying-for-content/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Michael Andersen Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:17:32 +0000 http://www.writinghurts.com/?p=72#comment-148 I largely agree, but I do think there's a more optimistic corollary to your excellent observation that readers' per-story price is so low: As you say, almost nobody reads the whole thing. But finding your personal wheat amid the chaff takes a lot of time and effort. To the extent that online publication can help locate the wheat for you, a newspaper's Web site is providing a better service that is worth more to me than identical content from print. (More thoughts on this <a href="http://mediumrun.blogspot.com/2009/04/dept-of-mythbusting-money-can-indeed-be.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, if you're interested.) Not that a high signal-to-noise ratio is enough to make a publication profitable, obviously. I'm pretty sure <a href="http://mediumrun.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-which-hog-fuel-demonstrates-that.html" rel="nofollow">the content will have to change, too</a>. I largely agree, but I do think there’s a more optimistic corollary to your excellent observation that readers’ per-story price is so low: As you say, almost nobody reads the whole thing. But finding your personal wheat amid the chaff takes a lot of time and effort.

To the extent that online publication can help locate the wheat for you, a newspaper’s Web site is providing a better service that is worth more to me than identical content from print. (More thoughts on this here, if you’re interested.)

Not that a high signal-to-noise ratio is enough to make a publication profitable, obviously. I’m pretty sure the content will have to change, too.

]]> By: Dave Williams’ Blog http://www.writinghurts.com/2009/05/14/you-only-think-youre-paying-for-content/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Dave Williams’ Blog Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:34:08 +0000 http://www.writinghurts.com/?p=72#comment-141 [...] with a known, recent history of failure? Or that human beings have no intention of paying for news they’ve always received for free? Does it matter that we already  know a return to the paywall-era of the early 2000s will cost [...] [...] with a known, recent history of failure? Or that human beings have no intention of paying for news they’ve always received for free? Does it matter that we already  know a return to the paywall-era of the early 2000s will cost [...]

]]> By: Conteúdo pago dá início a ritual de suicídio dos jornais | Converge Magazine http://www.writinghurts.com/2009/05/14/you-only-think-youre-paying-for-content/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Conteúdo pago dá início a ritual de suicídio dos jornais | Converge Magazine Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:49:23 +0000 http://www.writinghurts.com/?p=72#comment-140 [...] known, recent history of failure? Or that human beings have no intention of paying for news they’ve always received for free? Does it matter that we already  know a return to the paywall-era of the early 2000s will cost [...] [...] known, recent history of failure? Or that human beings have no intention of paying for news they’ve always received for free? Does it matter that we already  know a return to the paywall-era of the early 2000s will cost [...]

]]> By: Seven reasons charging for content won’t work « Transforming the Gaz http://www.writinghurts.com/2009/05/14/you-only-think-youre-paying-for-content/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Seven reasons charging for content won’t work « Transforming the Gaz Fri, 29 May 2009 13:05:06 +0000 http://www.writinghurts.com/?p=72#comment-138 [...] won’t work either. My Gazette colleague Jamie Kelly has done the math on what newspaper stories are worth in [...] [...] won’t work either. My Gazette colleague Jamie Kelly has done the math on what newspaper stories are worth in [...]

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