News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites

suraj.sun writes "Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an 'epochal' debate over whether to charge. 'That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience,' he said."

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Another smart move from the movers and shakers....

[wild_quinine]

Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a "malfunctioning" business model.

On the other hand, everytbody knows that charging for something that everyone else provides for free is a winning strategy.

Re:Another smart move from the movers and shakers.

[mariox19]

What does Murdoch know about making money, anyway?

Re:Well It's a Long Painful Death For ...

[vertinox]

* The Sun
        * News of the World
        * The Times
        * Sunday Times
        * The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
        * The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
        * The Australian (national)
        * The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide)
        * The Sunday Times (Perth)
        * Herald Sun (Melbourne)
        * Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)
        * mX (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane)
        * The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)
        * Geelong Advertiser
        * Gold Coast Bulletin
        * The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart)
        * Northern Territory News (Darwin)
        * The Sunday Territorian (Darwin)
        * Sunday Star-Times
        * Papua New Guinea Post-Courier
        * The Fiji Times
        * New York Post
        * The Wall Street Journal
        * Times Herald Record

And nothing of value was lost.

Re:Well It's a Long Painful Death For ...

[elrous0]

If we get really lucky, he'll start charging for foxnews.com too.

Re:The P0rn option...

[stewbacca]

You had me at "porn" and "doable".

Re:the sad thing is

[Kythe]

Indeed.

Now if only Fox News would become a "pay-by-the-minute" service...

Re:the sad thing is

[MyLongNickName]

Because it has seen your last few posts and is trying to save you the embarrassment :)