Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Imagine that in 1979 U.S. newspaper publishers somehow had had access to a time machine that revealed how the advent of the internet would impact their business 30 years hence. What steps might they have taken to ensure continued profitability in an age of instant, free access to information?
In a sense, India has such a [...]
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
You’ve heard the cliché: ‘necessity is the mother of invention.’ When it comes to the newspaper business, one might also substitute ‘desperation’ for necessity.
In Chris Anderson’ new book, Free: A Future of a Radical Price, the Wired Editor-in-Chief talks about the psychological barrier that free represents for consumers. Once the ‘free’ line is crossed, at [...]
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