Comment 69652

By arienc (registered) | Posted September 15, 2011 at 09:49:34

In a time period where individuals are just as likely to get local news from social networks, blogs like RTH and other sources that do not charge for information, print media's ability to leverage "news" into revenue is going to continue to be difficult. The big money for newspapers is this type of environment where information is ubituitous, is in archives, indexing and storage.

Many newspapers maintain vast archives of old papers on microfiche and film.

With the cost of storage and availability of digitization services, this represents a massive revenue opportunity for traditional newspaper publishers who have this content and can make it available.

Get those old articles digitized and hooked up to Google so that searches will dig up links to articles, and put anything older than a month behind a paywall, where people have a choice betwen unfettered access with copy privileges (for research / citation only - not redistribution) at $6.95/month, and access to single articles (without ability to copy from article) for a small payment of say a dollar each.

Comment edited by arienc on 2011-09-15 09:50:14

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