NONE: Re:.net business model
Re:.net business model
Donna Dolezal Zelzer (djz_at_efn.org)
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 19:29:57 -0700
At 5:58 PM 8/24/96, zapworks <zapworks_at_easynet.fr> wrote these words:>
>
> And just as in print, you can be sure that there will be access to paying
> content on a one-off basis - an ecash transfer to read a day's update of
> a site, or check it out properly before subscribing for instance. How
> many print magazines have you ever subscribed to without buying and
> reading a single copy first?
>
One thing this particular vision of the pay-per-view idea doesn't seem to
take into consideration is that, in the print world, I can pick up a
magazine at a newsstand or book store and look at it for free, before I
decide if I even want to pay for one issue. That kind of free browsing
needs to remain available on the web as well.
Perhaps something like this could work (details would vary with each
publication, of course!)
1. Free content would be the table of contents and selected text and
graphics from each issue. Try to give a good sampling, kind of like a quick
flip-through at the newstand. Maybe include the first couple paragraphs
from at least the major articles, to get people interested.
2.Pay-per-view to get an entire issue or particular article(s). This should
be a *very* low price, since there are virtually no printing or
distribution costs.
3. An on-line subscription, which would give you a password to access the
entire content of the current issue and each new issue for whatever your
term of subscription. You would always have access to the issues you've
paid for (including any bought in item 2), no matter if you have a current
sub. or not.
An auto credit/withdrawal option could be offered, so people wouldn't have
to worry about renewing. Cost for such subsriptions, again, should be much
lower than for the print version (or what a print version would cost, if
there one existed).
4. If back issues are also available, subscribers could purchase the right
to view back issues at a nominal fee, or it might just be part of the
subscription.
There could be a charter online sub. offer which would inlude access to all
back issues, for example.
Anyway, just some thougts on this.. trying to make it fair for both sides
of the equation, since I'm living on both sides myself! :-)
Donna
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