Re: UKNM: Subscriptions

[Clay Shirky]

> >content is getting cheaper by the day, by the hour, by the minute.

> 

> One thing is true: there is a downward trend in "content" or "information

> pricing" but there are some cases where this isn't going to be the case.


I think you are mistaking the trend with the end. Even analyst

information is becoming cheaper, since the web makes delivery costs

fall while the number of competitors rises. Stefan is right - content

is getting cheaper by the minute. This doesn't mean that all content

will inevitably become free, it just means that it will cost less than

it does now.


Information wants to be cheap.


(Watching this happen in the US, I wrote a paper a couple of years ago

called "Help. The Price of Information Has Fallen and It Can't Get

Up."


http://www.shirky.com/Articles/information_price.html)


-clay 

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