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Except that Netflix and even Apple iTunes show that if you price your content to be reasonable and allow people to actually choose what they want to watch, read
by chris_wot 10y ago
Except that Netflix and even Apple iTunes show that if you price your content to be reasonable and allow people to actually choose what they want to watch, read or hear when they want to do so you can actually make a lot of money. And you don't have to show ads.
- jbooth 10y agoEvery WSJ article on HN has instructions to circumvent the pay wall as top comment. And it's not like we couldn't afford it.
- angry-hacker 10y agoExactly. Top comment is always how to bypass the paywall and the readers here are wealthy than average. Having everything behind paywall would make the content available for selected few. How would HN even work if everything is paywalled?
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI believe the academics' comments in the Elselvier threads show how it would work. Hint: it wouldn't. ;)
- nickpsecurity 10y agoNetflix and iTunes are outliers. There were tons of attempts in those sectors. You haven't heard of most because they went bankrupt. The others barely make money and/or acquired little content. Try these: - Market for paid search of general content vs Google, Yahoo, and Bing. - Market for paid downloading of arbitrary, user-generated video vs YouTube and Vimeo. - Market for paid blogging vs Wordpress etc. - Number of people paying for news vs reading ad-supported news. - Number of new companies using LAMP or cloud stacks vs Microsoft Server stacks. And so on. Paid markets kept getting tinier and tinier with less and less money.