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When to charge for your content?

By Kristóf ⋅ October 14, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

My brief take on the “help, the electronic media is killing us!” screaming:

  • If you are a “breaking news”-based (print or electronic) outlet, Twitter & co will kill you. It was nice knowing you.
  • If you are bringing news analysis or situational analysis to the table, stop trying to charge for your archives! Charge for fresh content, show older for free.
  • If you write content that has value for a long time (i.e. NOT based on the news), THEN charge for you archive.

    • It’s not that hard.

    About the author: Kristóf Kovács is a freelance computer technology architect and project leader. You can rent his brain as your advisor, or you can hire him to help you in your projects. His ventures include a mobile entertaiment company (Mobile Planet Ltd), and a boutique software development house (Online Projects Ltd). Follow him on Twitter!

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