Comments on: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to charge for access to all news sites by next summer http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/06/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-to-charge-for-access-to-all-news-sites-by-next-summer/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Aquaadverse http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/06/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-to-charge-for-access-to-all-news-sites-by-next-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-201243 Aquaadverse Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:08:50 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=18756#comment-201243 Not going to work. Didn't work when the actual content of pay sites were better by far than average commercial sites when much of code was put out manually by tags and text editors. That ship has sailed. Not going to work. Didn’t work when the actual content of pay sites were better by far than average commercial sites when much of code was put out manually by tags and text editors.

That ship has sailed.

]]> By: JohnJ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/08/06/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-to-charge-for-access-to-all-news-sites-by-next-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-200923 JohnJ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:48:46 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=18756#comment-200923 "Rupert Murdoch" and "Quality journalism" don't belong in the same sentence. Pay walls are fine, but good luck with getting anything more than the most rabid fans to ante up. Especially when some other sources will stay free/ad-based. Speaking of, will pages for subscribers be ad-free or will they be inundated with ads even though they've already paid for access to the content? “Rupert Murdoch” and “Quality journalism” don’t belong in the same sentence.

Pay walls are fine, but good luck with getting anything more than the most rabid fans to ante up. Especially when some other sources will stay free/ad-based.

Speaking of, will pages for subscribers be ad-free or will they be inundated with ads even though they’ve already paid for access to the content?

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