by John O'Keefe-Odom
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Artists, authors and creative content providers need to be paid for their time. I understand why Time would put a paywall up on these documents. That said, if readers are going to pay, then it would make sense that they pay for content that has some lasting effects.
Paywall-printings need staying power.
That said, there's still some room for some free web content. Namely, that kind of content that's not worth preserving or conserving.
If it's on a web page, it's, by structure, temporary. W3C overhauls HTML standards every few years: already most browsers cannot read older web pages. Electronic content eventually deletes itself.
Free web pages are great for ads. Paid content needs some structure, some analysis, and some punch. If the paywall acts like the bookbinding of paper printing, then remember to put content worth binding into that package.
Will they? We'll see.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
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