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By: Why, Kai? » Blog Archive » Why Business-Related Web-Friendly Content

Why, Kai? » Blog Archive » Why Business-Related Web-Friendly Content — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:04:39 +0000

[...] the DNRonline.com has been “paywalled“, meaning people need to pay to read it online, there are a number of added challenges to [...]

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By: 2009 in Harrisonburg | hburgnews.com

2009 in Harrisonburg | hburgnews.com — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:25:35 +0000

[...] reportage. Of course, that was before DNRonline, plagued by security issues, erected a pay wall, effectively reducing traffic from here to [...]

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By: Joey Groah

Joey Groah — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:31:21 +0000

This article by Paul Grahame on “post medium publishing” http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html might be of interest.

“Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers won’t pay for content anymore. At least, that’s how they see it.

In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn’t better content cost more? [1]“

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By: Emmy

Emmy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:36:13 +0000

Just saw a TV3 commercial talking about the DNR going to a pay site and mentioning that their site is always free.

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By: Brent Finnegan

Brent Finnegan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:35:50 +0000

WHSV has had RSS for as long as I’ve been visiting. I stopped following WHSV on Twitter because so many of their headlines weren’t local. All sorts of state AP stuff.

I created my own local RSS feed for TV3. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than getting irrelevant news from all over the country and/or state. Anyone (including TV3) is free to use it:

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By: Bell

Bell — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:16:39 +0000

In case anyone didn’t know, WHSV has added RSS to their “new” website.

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:32:31 +0000

JGF, embarrassed I didn’t think of it that way. Good point; the goal probably is to hopefully decrease the rate of subscriber erosion rather than create new revenue streams.

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By: JGFitzgerald

JGFitzgerald — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:07:49 +0000

Worth noting: The idea behind the paywall is not necessarily to make money off the web version. It’s more a matter of taking an alternative away from print subscribers. They don’t, I’d imagine, expect to get a huge new number of young people paying online, but they will have fewer older subscribers quitting the print edition because they can get it free online.

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By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:07:12 +0000

It’s sad watching all these publishers slowly die. This is pretty much the opposite of what DNR needs to be doing to survive. Somebody help these folks find a new business model and creative new revenue sources.

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