geert lovink on Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:03:53 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-nl] het hoe en wat van betalen voor content |
Beste nettime-nl, ik zou het goed vinden als we gezamelijk zouden kunnen uitvinden wat voor soort modellen er zijn om freelancers te betalen voor hun werk en tegelijkertijd er een vrije uitwisseling van informatie kan blijven bestaan. Is dit een onverkomelijke contradictie? In plaats van nieuwssites te sluiten en iedereen op straat te zetten kan er volgens mij beter geexperimenteerd gaan worden met electronische betalingssystemen, al dan niet onafhankelijk van credit cards. Geert De Amerikaanse website Salon is volgende die deuren sluit voor gratis content: http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2001/10/01/premium_news/index.html Oct. 1, 2001 | Starting today Salon will begin publishing virtually all of its News and Politics articles in our Premium edition. This means that if you don't already subscribe to Salon Premium, you will need to do so in order to keep reading Salon's coverage of the Bush administration and the current global crisis. [...] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/business/media/02SALO.html October 2, 2001 Salon, Magazine on the Web, Will Charge Readers of News By FELICITY BARRINGER The Web magazine Salon, facing sharply lower advertising revenues and increased costs for gathering news, has decided to make its news and political coverage available only to paying subscribers. The goal, said David Talbot, the editor of the six-year-old magazine, is to rely on circulation revenue for half of next year's $7.5 million budget. That goal, an ambitious one by the standard of any magazine, print or online, is an indication of the unremittingly sour climate for Web advertising. Another high-profile online site, Steven Brill's Contentville, quit business on Friday, leaving its 15 employees without jobs. In an e-mail message to the staff, Mr. Brill said, "Despite the great work of the Contentville staff and the great support we had from our partners, my idea for Contentville just didn't work." Contentville allowed readers to go to one site to find and purchase articles from a variety of newspapers and magazines, as well as books, dissertations and other sources. [...] ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik@xs4all.nl).