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Barry Diller: Paywalls Will Work Eventually - 0 views

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Barry Diller told Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu that he believes people will pay for media content in the future, and that paywalls will work eventually. "[Free content] will end because now so many people are used to paying for applications, whether they pay 99 cents or whether they pay for a tune, or they pay 99 cents to play Solitaire, or $4.95 to do this or $2.95 to do that, or one kind of one stop, very simple to do," Diller said.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Barry Diller told Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu that he believes people will pay for media content in the future, and that paywalls will work eventually. "[Free content] will end because now so many people are used to paying for applications, whether they pay 99 cents or whether they pay for a tune, or they pay 99 cents to play Solitaire, or $4.95 to do this or $2.95 to do that, or one kind of one stop, very simple to do," Diller said.</div>

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Hard times for traditional books as China's digital publishing industry grows - Books, ... - 2 views

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And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version. </div>

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Brian Suszek on 06 Aug 10

I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.</div>

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Students can research books on their iPods.... But will they? | Technology | Los Angele... - 0 views

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Derik Dupont on 19 Nov 09

Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone. Questia, an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and periodicals on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app costs 99 cents for 5,000 public-domain books and a week of unlimited access. After that, users can buy a two-week subscription for $9.99. There are so many things wrong with this we don't know where to start. For one, students don't like to buy things....

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Questia Library Plus iPhone app. Credit: Questia We'll spare you the obvious "there's an app for that" joke. But you can get a library's worth of books on your phone. Questia, an online research portal for students, announced its application today for reading books, articles and periodicals on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app costs 99 cents for 5,000 public-domain books and a week of unlimited access. After that, users can buy a two-week subscription for $9.99. There are so many things wrong with this we don't know where to start. For one, students don't like to buy things....</div>

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40K Books: 99-Cent Essays by Million-Dollar Authors | Brain Pickings - 1 views

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99 Cent E-Books - 3 views

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arnie Grossblatt on 09 Mar 11

Will publishing follow the trajectory of the recorded music industry? Kevin Kelly thinks so.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Will publishing follow the trajectory of the recorded music industry? Kevin Kelly thinks so.</div>

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Post-Medium Publishing - 0 views

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iTunes is more of a tollbooth
- arnie Grossblatt on 27 Sep 09
  
  This is saving the argument by changing the terms mid-stream.
  
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much the same with digital books
- arnie Grossblatt on 27 Sep 09
  
  How the same? Claiming it doesn't make it so. And books cost more than 99 cents; ten dollars is not, in Graham's terms, an ignorable event.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">How the same? Claiming it doesn't make it so. And books cost more than 99 cents; ten dollars is not, in Graham's terms, an ignorable event.</div>
  
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But though I can't predict specific winners, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that's merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably looking at a loser.
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In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?
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If audiences were willing to pay more for better content, why wasn't anyone already selling it to them?
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