http://joethink.com/blog/2009/03/charging-for-content-penalizes-the-here-let-me-recommend-this-nature-of-the-internet/ A Denver web developer and journalist's thoughts on local online journalism, community, context and storytelling. Tue, 03 May 2011 22:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-bleeding http://joethink.com/blog/2009/03/charging-for-content-penalizes-the-here-let-me-recommend-this-nature-of-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-28887 Chris Amico Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:14:42 +0000 http://www.joethink.com/blog/?p=340#comment-28887 That might be the point, though. I can't help see, reading through all the imagined scenarios of "How can we get readers to pay," this misunderstanding of how a story actually moves through social circles (online and off) and how many different news sources a person may browse through with barely a thought to branding. Paywalls, in every call for them I can remember, assume the homepage is much more of a destination than it really is. Many seem to see only one route to a story. That might be the point, though. I can’t help see, reading through all the imagined scenarios of “How can we get readers to pay,” this misunderstanding of how a story actually moves through social circles (online and off) and how many different news sources a person may browse through with barely a thought to branding. Paywalls, in every call for them I can remember, assume the homepage is much more of a destination than it really is. Many seem to see only one route to a story.

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