H'm, a newspaper wrote an article about how, uh, newspapers have to pay a fee to publish to the iPad. Yeah, there can't possibly be any conflict of interest there.
I'm also a bit curious: Do the news readers prefer an opt-in or an opt-out here? I don't recall anyone saying yet that opt-out is somehow superior to opt-in, this may be a first.
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Well, Murdoch is busy writing the manual on how not to adapt....
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Well....
While Murdoch has made some moves that turned out to be awful (notably buying MySpace), he has also pushed his business into the digital era. For example, News Corp put out the first iPad-specific daily news app, "The Daily."
I don't think they're great at it, but it's not for a lack of trying.
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I read more - and higher quality - news and commentary now, totally for free, than I ever did when I used to pay daily for print newspapers.
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Not for long.
Someone has to pay for that process. Craigslist killed classifieds revenues, and Internet ads can only take a company so far. News outlets are slowly shifting away from a "purely free" model towards a mix of free and paid content.
It might not work, but if it doesn't, chances are that a lot of news outlets will go bust.