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Sep 28, 2009 4:17 AM
By Kevin Anderson: While newspapers and the music industry look for new ways to make as much money as they did before the dawn of digital, games makers are celebrating achieving success with the “freemium” business model. This model means that anyone can play for free, but they have to…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 27, 2009 12:01 AM
Last week, our PCUK/Harris Interactive poll on consumers willingness to pay for online news caused quite a stir. Missed the series? Check back at each part with these links... —#1: Only Five Percent Of Readers Would Pay For Online News —#2: Readers Prefer Subscriptions To Micropayments —#3: How Much Do…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 23, 2009 7:01 PM
Our exclusive paidContent:UK/Harris Interactive poll has this week shown how resistant most consumers are to charging for online newspapers. But, for publishers, one possible hope that arises on our final day of results is to consider print and online in tandem... While only five percent of people who read a…
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Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Research & Metrics, Research, paidcontent poll
Robert Andrews
Sep 22, 2009 7:01 PM
So far, in our exclusive paidContent:UK/Harris Interactive poll, we’ve learned that only five percent of regular news site users would pay if their favourite haunt started charging, and that readers would prefer to subscribe annually. But the all-important question is: how much would they be prepared to pay? Answer: as…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 21, 2009 7:01 PM
On Monday, we revealed how, if their favourite news site started charging for content, just five percent of Brits would pay. So exactly how would users prefer to cough up their cash? Day two in our exclusive paidContent:UK/Harris Interactive poll shows that a long-term subscription, and not micropayments, is by…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 20, 2009 7:00 PM
If Rupert Murdoch thinks readers will pay to read his websites, maybe he should think again. Exclusive research commissioned by paidContent:UK from Harris Interactive shows that most readers would run a mile. —If their favourite news site begins charging for access to content, three quarters of people would simply switch…
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