A new look at the publisher’s lunch

[hatmandu]

As usual, everyone’s talking about how publishing can survive, and how to make money on the internet. Paul Graham has written an excellent essay, Post-Medium Publishing, where he observes that it is wrong to think publishers sell ‘content’ - rather, they sell a means of distribution, and prices are dictated by that (ie, historically, the price of

Comments

[editor]

Micropayments? I can’t see myself paying for news stories.

Clearly, then, the payments you're envisaging aren't sufficiently micro. Personally I wouldn't mind being automatically billed 1p for any day on which I accessed one or more pages within a reputable news site...

(Though, of course, my favourite news site is BBC News, and I already pay for that.)

[hatmandu]

Well, yeah, OK, I guess every man has his low price. And good point about the BeeBeeCee.