[Sigia-l] Who here is paying for content?

[Chris Chandler]

I pay 2.95/month for a subscription to ConsumerReports
online. I rarely use it, but it's a pretty small bite, and
when I do have the need to research a new product, I find it
to be very useful.

-cc




----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathleen Klein" <kathleen at kleininfodesign.com>
To: "IA SIG (E-mail)" <sigia-l at asis.org>
Cc: "Klein Info Design (E-mail)"
<kathleen at kleininfodesign.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: [Sigia-l] Who here is paying for content?


> I'd like to hear from people who actually pay for content
on the Internet.
>
> In what form? Subscriptions, micropayments, per-piece
payments? For fun or
> business?
> The only purchases I recall this past year were a single
NY Times archived
> article (which wasn't worth the $2 or $3 I spent), a
Harvard Business Review
> article (which was worth  $5 I spent), and a couple of
Consumer Reports car
> buying invoices that were worth many times the $12 cost
for each one. How
> about you?
>
> I am interested in your actual experience with paying for
content, not
> opinions about it. Please start a separate thread if you
want to deal in
> opinions. Thanks - Kathleen
>
>
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/technology/01ONLI.html?to
daysheadlines>
> More Internet users are showing a willingness to pay for
content online,
> according to a survey of cyberspending patterns released
on Wednesday. ...
> which also shows that a relative handful of businesses
benefit from these
> purchases and that advertising remains the overwhelming
source of income for
> supporting digital content.
>
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