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Ok Newspapers, Here’s Another Chance For You to Charge For Content
As the newspaper business plunge into an abyss, Rupert Murdoch’s address on a conference call to CNN, saying that the News Corporation titles will begin to charge for content, comes as no suprise because so far the advertising model for online content doesn’t ahieve the amount needed for their operations and any newspaper opertaions, as the offline sales are dropping fastly.
And then to the rescue comes Mr. Bezos to the rescue.
Right after the launch of the Kindle 2, Jeff Bezos CEO at Amazon.com, announces a new Kindle, the DX, targeted directly to newspapers, magazines and college students with it’s newspaper-like reading due achieved with a larger screen.
Maybe a subscription model might work on such device, I personaly think that paying for one product subscription will not work as well as bundles would. An iPhone WSJ application reached 360.000 downloads, this application allows free access to the content.
Downloading over the air content and reading it on a confortable screen is really atractive for me and I wouldn’t mind pay for premium content as long as priced around $30 a month and gives me a bundle of subscriptions, like two or three newspapers and a few magazines.
Am I asking too much?
The following videos will give more information on this subject, and listen to Richard Quest saying “Freebies” its worthwhile. § Read the rest of this entry…
Iphone on 1983! Yes it has been developed since then
The image found by Marc Esslinger, son of Hartmut Esslinger, designer of the Apple IIc.
As the blog unplugged salients, if they have been playng around with this touch screen concept, it comes as no surprise that the iPhone is the revolunary device as it is.
Through so many years of development they have, most likely advanced from the corded phone to the cordless and obviously to the cellphone after.
Wireless keyboard for the iPhone!
Watch the video below, check more information @ www.ubiqkom.org/blog/?p=41
