[Upd-discuss] Wired on BBC Creative Archive

[Florent Latrive]

Your method is clever, Jean Baptiste, but it's purely counterfeiting ;=)

Nearly all newspaper use this kind of idea: articles free for a few 
days, then blocked to be payed after a delay. The daily
newspaper I work for (Liberation in Paris) use exactly that. That can 
seem strange: in fact, the real added value of  a newspaper
is made out of fresh news and the hability to organize news. Those two 
kinds of added value could be, in theory, better "extracted"
with the model offered by Richard: articles would be sold the first day 
(for a daily newspaper, the first month for a monthly...) and then
totally free after this delay. The newspaper could then earn more money 
from its articles when they are published and could even sell
the archives when they are re organized for special issues, for instance.

But the problem is advertising. Lots of newspapers are trying to compete 
with "TV model" on the Web: they give away their news the first days
in order to get as many readers as possible and as many ads as 
possible... And they imagine that it's impossible to get ads on archives.

In fact, the best way to try to be nice to Richard AND to let the 
newspapers earn money from the Web would be to put ads on free archives 
pages,
and to hope that it will give enough money back... I don't know if any 
newspaper has always try that solution.

Florent LATRIVE


jbsoufron@free.fr wrote:

>As for myself, I simply save the article on my hd in html, then I make a link 
>from my browser to the file in my hd... 
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>simple... 
>
>Then I can enjoy the article as long as I want and I can even send it to 
>friends or copy/paste it when I write an article! 
>
>I don't know if your business model has any cash value but as it is quite 
>annoying to users, you should check for it carefully before changing anything 
>to what your customers are used to.
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>Quoting Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
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>>    My company has long provided one of their key publications on the web
>>    for free, and is considering charging for it. They are looking at the
>>    NYT model with a difference - articles less than a week old are free,
>>    articles more than x years old are free, anything else is subscription
>>    only.
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>>It is quite unfortunate when newspapers do this.  I used to make many
>>links to articles from The Independent, but now I never do, because I
>>know the articles will become inaccessible after a week or so.
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>>It would be much better to charge for access to the latest articles
>>and provide free access once they are a week old.  Then the articles
>>would be useful to link to after just a week.
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