Monday, July 19, 2010

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:

  1. Excellent idea. Your check for this comment is in the mail.

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  2. 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.

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  3. How would you define what qualifies as a rant? Would you use your own blog posts as a yardstick?

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