WSJ puts a price on mobile news
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Grasping Australian gazillionaire Rupert Murdoch figures news is a commodity.
And that means people have to pay.
News Corp is set to start charging online customers for news content across all its websites, said the BBC recently.
The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive methods of distribution, said Murdoch, but it, has not made content free.
Now he’s going to hammer mobile readers of his Wall Street Journal which will, “soon will begin charging people to read the paper on mobile devices such as their BlackBerrys, the paper’s owner Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday,” according to Reuters, which goes on:
“The move, which News Corp CEO Murdoch announced at a Goldman Sachs conference in New York, is an attempt to find a new way for the business daily to make more money from an increasingly popular way for people to access their news.”
The WSJ will start charging “in one to two months,” it has Murdoch saying.
“Under the plan, people who do not subscribe to the Journal would pay $2 a week for mobile access, and subscribers would pay $1 per week,” says the story, adding:
“Subscribers to both the print and online version of the paper will get mobile for free.”
people have to pay – News is NOT free: Murdoch, August 6, 2009
BBC Murdoch signals end of free news, August 6, 2009
Reuters – Wall Street Journal to charge mobile readers, September 15, 2009
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September 16th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Uh huh.
Good luck with that one, eh Rupert.
:p
September 16th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Good job…..
You’re succeeding in making your publication less relevant in a more competitive environment.
Well, this is from the man behind fox news.