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

[Stephanie Heacox]

I suspect I may have less aversion to paying for content than most people,
because I used to make my living as a commercial database expert.  Offhand,
I recall the paying for the following in the last year:

Vindigo (although I'm still somewhat steamed that Palm users don't have to
pay and Pocket PC users do)
Consumer Reports (which I also get in print), including car reports
Wall Street Journal
NY Times archive articles
AAA (I assume that member-only content is considered "paid for"?)
Chow News and Chow Alert (if you're a foodie, check out chowhound.com)
Dialog Info Services (an assortment of commercial database research)
plus various industry reports for my last employer (e.g, Forrester and Jakob
Neilsen's Design Annual (I hesitate to say that for fear of being seared))

There's probably more, but that's what I can remember at the moment...

Stephanie Heacox
Director of Information Architecture
Orbis2 Partners, LLC
direct (718)436-2505
cell (917)797-0719
fax (516)908-3677
stephanie.heacox at orbis-2.com
www.orbis-2.com


-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
Kathleen Klein
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:04 PM
To: IA SIG (E-mail)
Cc: Klein Info Design (E-mail)
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?todaysheadlines>
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.

Klein Info Design
Information architecture/Web project management
www.kleininfodesign.com
206-781-2615


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