Making the "Free" Business Model Work In a Tough Economy

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 2, 2009 @03:41AM from the learning-from-the-dot-com-days dept.

Randy Savage writes "With venture capital on hold and advertising revenue down, the WSJ discusses where online business models might go. 'Over the past decade, we have built a country-sized economy online where the default price is zero — nothing, nada, zip. Digital goods — from music and video to Wikipedia — can be produced and distributed at virtually no marginal cost, and so, by the laws of economics, price has gone the same way, to $0.00. For the Google Generation, the Internet is the land of the free. '"

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Making the "Free" Business Model Work In a Tough Economy

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