> The Economist is a prime example of how for-pay curated content can work and can work well to serve a market... a wide market. It certainly is. But I wonder

> The Economist is a prime example of how for-pay curated content can work and can work well to serve a market... a wide market. It certainly is. But I wonder how much their strategy can really serve as a model for others. On the one hand, the Economist might be seen as saying, "Here is how to do it." Others can follow and similarly prosper, with increasingly large markets being served. Or, on the other hand, the Economist might simply be meeting all of the demand for a publication like itself. And the only way for another company to do as well using the same strategy, would be to produce a publication that is convincingly better than the Economist, thus putting the original out of business.