Set The WSJ Free!
| August 2, 2007 |  View for printing |
There's a discussion brewing at Techmeme on the subject of what Murdoch should do the day he takes control of the Wall Street Journal. I'll say here publicly what I've been saying privately to anyone who will listen to me.
Rupert Murdoch should make the WSJ as free to use online as Google is. And he should do that the first day he owns the paper.
Fred Wilson
Full Story: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/08/se ... sj-fre.html
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Can Murdoch Charge for Wall Street Journal (WSJ.com) and Give It Away Too?
“On Day 1,” a lot of people in the Internet news business imagine Rupert Murdoch saying, “everything is free.”
The conventional wisdom is that Dow Jones is making a tragic mistake by charging as much as $99 a year for the online edition of The Wall Street Journal because it gives up the advertising revenue that would come from a much larger audience, not to mention the influence that being fully part of the Web’s linkfest would give it. (Much the same is said about Times Select, the subscribers-only area on NYTimes.com, but we won’t get into that here.)
By Saul Hansell
Full Story: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/0 ... t-away-too/
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