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Subject: Re: UKNM: Subscriptions
From: Clay Shirky
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:24:38 +0100

> It's interesting from an economics pov, because there is lots of free
> stuff available (errrr so I've heard :) ), and yet people pay very
> decent money to access even more.

Not so surprising from a classical economics point of view, since
there is <ahem> inelastic demand.

Porn is one of the few areas where immediacy of delivery and
continuously updated of new content will merit user
payments. Financial data is the other one.

-clay
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