News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites
suraj.sun writes “Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a ‘flawed’ business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation’s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a “malfunctioning” business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an “epochal” debate over whether to charge. “That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal’s experience,” he said.”
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