Death by Net? New Economic Models for publishers. Perhaps they should promote books with free audiobook podcasts.

The New Yorker proposes a business model that’s coherent: a partnership with internet service providers that levels a monthly surcharge on all customers in exchange for open access to partner websites. There are a lot of problems with that model, though. You can’t easily identify who has paid their fee, because it’s tied to an I.P. address or email address (I suppose free audiobook podcasts users would also have to get use to a new model, when it means you can’t as easily pass the Sunday paper around the room as my in-laws and I are doing right now). It skips over any addressing of/updating copyright law. And it places undue pressure on newspapers that don’t sign up and/or creates a cartel of newspapers that would have the power to decide who is included in the deal (not saying newspapers would do that, but it’s a concern that they could).  SMLXL

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