Media Watchers Beginning To Ask Why People Would Pay For Online ...

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 10/20/2009 - 00:38

Ever since the latest round of newspaper paywall/micropayment suggestions have come up, we've been asking why none of the newspapers/reporters pushing these plans can explain what added value will make people buy.

And that's because almost none of them are actually thinking about this. They just keep thinking that if they add a mechanism to get people to pay, that people will magically pay, rather than go elsewhere.

The problem, of course, is that readers have made it clear:...

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