Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Pay to Read Online

Despite recent indications that Google Inc might pull out from China, the country still boasts the World’s largest online population with over 380 million online users.

The number is expected to rise to over 500 million in the next three years!

And it seems online companies are aware of how much of their content is accessed and used; an indicator of this is that newspapers in England are now going to charge readers who access their newspapers online.

From June this year The Sunday Times and The Times (British versions) will charge readers £1 for a day’s access to their sites.

I think it could be dangerous territory when people start getting charged to read information online, but on the other hand, the newspapers are probably losing out on sales by providing the online service, so they would need to recoup it somehow.

written by Rory

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