How Newspapers Can Make Real Money On The Internet
Charge by the comment line. Just like a classified ad.
Collect via credit card registration.
Even at a paltry $1 per comment - - but really, the longer the comment and the more it rants, the bigger the user fee - - this column could have netted the paper $153. This one, a few bucks less, but you get my point: Story after story, column after column, blog posting after posting - - there's gold in them there comments and no one can refudiate my reasoning
Others can sort out the issue of revenue sharing with the writer.
5 comments:
Excellent idea. Your check for this comment is in the mail.
James - obviously economics or being involved with a for profit business is not your forte'.
Just do a little supply/demand curve analysis when the cost of making a comment goes from $0 to $1, and you will see what I mean.
How would you define what qualifies as a rant? Would you use your own blog posts as a yardstick?
Mission accomplished.
To Ron: You bet.
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