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Please pay us for our news — please?
mathewingram.com/work —
... As the financial pressures on newspapers continue to increase, the chorus of voices calling out for a new kind of payment scheme grow louder and louder. Some, like New York Times writer David Carr, have argued that newspapers should be able to concoct some form of “iTunes for news” that would allow them to pool their resources and charge users for their content (provided they get a waiver from the anti-trust authorities, of course). Others — including Carr’s boss Bill Keller, in ...
The NYT API: Newspaper as Platform [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... There’s been a lot of chatter about the newspaper industry in recent weeks — about whether newspaper companies should find something like iTunes, or use micropayments as a way to ...
The NYT API: Newspaper as platform
mathewingram.com/work —
... There’s been a lot of chatter about the newspaper industry in recent weeks — about whether newspaper companies should find something like iTunes, or use micropayments as a way to ...
How The New York Times Could Make Micropayments Work (NYT)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... back then: clumsy technology (no AJAX, awkward logins), hefty media pocks (NYT was selling at $40/share, compared to its current $5), and, most importantly, the giddy hope of a free media future. But here we are today, struggling with a plummeting ad economy and the increased (but necessary) stress of moving everything digital. So micropayments are back on the table -- just ask all of the heavies who announced their support in the past week: Walter Isaacson, David Carr, Henry Blodget, Steven Brill, Stu Bykofsky, and Gawker (sorta). ...
Paying for the news: A link-a-thon
mathewingram.com/work —
... www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/business/media/12carr.html ...
The writing is on the paywall
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog —
... for the print edition of the New York Times in The Atlantic. He foresees the Times shrinking into "a bigger, better, and less partisan version of the Huffington Post." There was the Times's David Carr running the old micropayments idea up the flagpole. Look to iTunes, he suggested , for a model of how "to perform a cashectomy on users." In a Time cover story, Walter Isaacson also ...
A One-Stop Shop for (Paid) Digital News
Wired: Epicenter —
... "An iTunes for news": That's a concept some people
have latched onto as a possible way out of the mess newspapers have
found themselves in. Now three veteran media executives are starting
something that, if not quite the equivalent of Apple's online music
store, borrows some of its features and throws in a couple of its own. ...
