RE: UKNM: Subscriptions

[Bunder, Leslie]

And indeed, I used to send out far more letters by post, nowadays it

tends to be by e-mail, especially to my folks in the States.


Years ago I used to pay upwards of �5 to get hold of the New York Times

Sunday edition in London to get New York news, now I just use the Web.


And also I used to watch more news on TV (eg: Sky), now I use the Web,

so the issue is, what impact is the Web making on TV subscription

services.


Leslie

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From: Stefan Magdalinski[SMTP:stefanisness [dot] org]

>Sent: 	14 June 1999 19:58

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To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: 	Re: UKNM: Subscriptions

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>Chris Heathcote wrote:

>> 

>> At 1:39 pm -0400 on 10/6/99, Clay Shirky wrote:

>> 

>> >Well, sure, but this isn't the question anymore. The real question now

>> >is who will pay for anything online given the amount of free content?

>> >

>> >Put another way, what services have such low substitutability that

>> >they can charge for access?

>> 

>> Yes, there's lots of free content out there.

>> 

>> But how much is worth the bytes it's written in?

>> 

>> If you spend any time searching the Web for information, you realise

>> how almost any decent information either isn't there or isn't free

>> (or isn't easily found).

>> 

>> For me, Usenet is the nearest you get to a comprehensive information

>> source: and yet there are many times, certainly when it gets down to

>> details and specifics, that no-one's willing to give information for

>> free (certain technical communities are the exception).

>> 

>> >Doubt it. In the real world, its expensive to build a distribution

>> >network. Here, its free, so what it comes down to is competition for

>> >eyeballs. If Company X (e.g. Slate, AOL) charges for something and

>> >Company Y (e.g Salon, Freeserve), then Y grows at the expense of X.

>> 

>> Or in economic terms, perfect competition: a completely level playing

>> field, with every company churning out a nearly generic product. In

>> this situation, every company is a price-taker - in this case, free.

>> 

>> But information isn't a generic product. You pay for quality

>> information. We've always done this, and although the Internet

>> negates a lot of information inaccessibilty (due to geography), you

>> still consume paid-for information, whether on dead wood or in bits

>> and bytes.

>> 

>> Content is still the killer app of the Web, and if people want

>> content, they'll pay for content.

>

>rubbish. 

>

>I used to buy Time Out. I use www.thisislondon.com

>

>I used to have an A-Z. I use www.multimap.com

>

>I used to buy newspapers. I read about 20 news sites from around the

>globe.

>

>I used to read Adbusters, now I've got UKNM.

>

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

>

>stefan

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