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(Unverified)Jan 20th 2010 6:30PM

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Yes, if the price is reasonable, say, around $50/year. Good reporting costs a lot of money and if we're not willing to pay for it, the quality of information we receive will decline. Much of the blogosphere depends on professional reporting for news, information, articles to link to and respond to, etc.

I think the freemium model might work. I could see something like a quota of 30 articles per month for registered users (1 a day) after which you have to pay a relatively modest fee ($50/year or $5/month) to get unlimited access.

I think the whole everything should be free culture that we have is short sided. I'm amazed that people complain that iPhone apps are expensive if they are anything more than a couple dollars. At some point, sustaining innovation requires that some people charge for their services.

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(Unverified)Jan 21st 2010 7:45AM

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sustaining innovation? it's obvious you're not talking about the NYT.

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