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The Party's Over: Murdoch - To charge for Online content

This is big.

... Not because its Rupert Murdoch  who said it (The chairman of News Corp)

Its big because it could set the trend for others to follow.

Murdoch says he plans to charge for all the online content.

(Would I be blogging on this if I had to pay for it?  Would you be reading this if you had to pay for it? )

So when will he start charging?

Maybe next year?

He predicted a "high single digit" rebound in the group's operating profits next year.

"We intend to charge for all our news websites," Mr Murdoch said.

"If we're successful, we'll be followed by all media,he added, predicting significant revenues from charging for differentiated news online."

See it - Link it - while its still free:

ft.com article

Published Wednesday, August 05, 2009 8:27 PM by godogs

Comments

 

Corey Kielan said:

If he starts charging for myspace, I'll be looking for membership to drop significantly.
August 6, 2009 2:04 AM
 

godogs said:

Yeah I hear you Corey.
August 6, 2009 12:58 PM
 

Bratty said:

There is no way I would pay for online news or social networking sites. There are to many places that offer it free.
If they do start charging, I think they will see a major decline in traffic to their sites.
August 6, 2009 6:45 PM
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