Re: UKNM: Subscriptions

[Clay Shirky]

> People will always willing to pay for something if they can see real

> value in it.  


You know, this simply isn't true.


It always amazes me to see people who do this sort of thing for a

living going around saying that something has to definitely almost

certainly probably be true about the Web, *without posting a single

URL*. 


A partial list of companies that wrongly thought they could build good

businesses charging the consumer for content inlcudes the New York

Times and Microsoft, no slouches when it comes to marketing. The

counter argument is not vaporous talk about what "stands to reason",

the counter argument is "My mates over at www.gisaquid.co.uk are

charging for content and making simply pots of lolly in the process."


If this is such a good idea, where are the URLs? 


-clay 

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