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Murdoch and Pay per Browse
13 August 2009 by Administrator
How interesting that Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for Internet
content on his newspaper titles. Now you may, or may not have an
opinion about the matter. After all - who has time to read
the newspapers online? But for those of us who are providing
Internet content simply for the joy of it - well we reckon it's
very much a case of "watch this space".
Obviously here at The Interview Online, we simply adore what we
are doing and we can't tell you how much pleasure we get from
studying the analysis reports to find out that "ooh someone in
Beijing spent 5 minutes listening to the Sarah Dunant
Interview".
HOWEVER….
There will come a point when, unless we have discovered a way of
making some money out of this (we're not talking a fortune, even a
living, just a few pennies here and there) we will have to have a
rethink. No worries at the moment because we're working on it. Any
sponsors out there who would like to be identified with a world
famous author? We'll you won't be too surprised to know we'd like
to hear from you!
But enough of the vulgar subject of money and back to Mr.
Murdoch.
It will be REALLY interesting to see what happens say 2 years
from now. Will people subscribe to News International or will they
simply abandon it? Will they pay for what they perceive as "high
end content"? Will The Times be pay per view, and The
Sun free? And then the really biggie… What about the BBC?
They must be popping champagne at the BBC. Those guys are
already big players and bingo! One of their main competitors puts
up its own hurdles.
Perhaps the British government (who are pretty anti-BBC at the
moment) will turn round and say that since it's the licence-fee
payer coughing up for the service, why should it be freely
available to literally the whole world?
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and maybe we'll mention it in the next blog.