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Local News Works When Cost Structure Isn't Screwed Up
They tried to take the same content, produced by the same people, in the same ways, and get subscribers and advertisers to pay for it on the web in a traditional model.
Rob Mancabelli • Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education
Independent internet-native creators leverage the internet’s frictionless content creation and distribution, but they’re still trapped by traditional business models like subscriptions and advertising.
A subscription model is based on the promise of the production of future gated content. A publication or creator is paid to continue production, not ... See more
A subscription model is based on the promise of the production of future gated content. A publication or creator is paid to continue production, not ... See more
Luxury Media
The barrage of crap we see on the Web is a direct consequence of the current economic model, where Google sucks all the money from the space, leaving only spoils to content creators. If there is no good money to be made on a single article, people will be forced to make up for this with 100 worse ones, exacerbating the problem.