Posted 8 Feb 2010 by Tony O’Driscoll
So, how does an unknown anthropology professor from Kansas make a home movie on a “cheap computer” in his basement that beats out all the $3.6 million Super Bowl ads and transforms him into a Web 2.0 rock star? This story begins and ends with the free and open user-generated [...]

By Jonathan Stray /  Jan. 26  /  10 a.m.
It’s entirely possible that The New York Times will net a profit from their newly announced paywall, set to debut in a year’s time. But it’s by no means guaranteed. Even (momentarily) setting aside the journalistic or civic-minded concerns about shutting some readers out of the news, the whole idea makes little [...]

Chris Tryhorn - The Guardian, Monday 25 January 2010
How can you make the internet pay? It’s the number one question being asked by all media groups, with Rupert Murdoch poised to put his papers behind a paywall and the New York Times announcing it will do the same in 2011.
Fresh from the sale of his Breakingviews financial [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Taking a step that has tempted and terrified much of the newspaper industry, The New York Times announced on Wednesday that it would charge some frequent readers for access to its Web site — news that drew ample reaction from media analysts and consumers, ranging from enthusiastic to withering…more

Many websites already offer charging options – but few, as Rupert Murdoch seems to suggest, simply lock browsers out
Charles Arthur, guardian.co.uk - Wednesday 2 December 2009 23.59 GMT
From the hands thrown to cheeks at Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he’s looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that they’re the unicorns of the [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TIM ARANGO
Over more than a decade, consumers became accustomed to the sweet, steady flow of free news, pictures, videos and music on the Internet. Paying was for suckers and old fogeys. Content, like wild horses, wanted to be free. Now, however, there are growing signs that this free ride is drawing to a [...]

By BRAD STONE and MIGUEL HELFT
Published: November 13, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and groups representing book publishers and authors filed a modified version of their controversial books settlement with a federal court on Friday. The changes would pave the way for other companies to license Google’s vast digital collection of copyrighted out-of-print books, and might resolve Google’s conflicts [...]

The New York Times - By CLARK HOYT
Published: October 31, 2009
IN his autobiography “The Good Times,” Russell Baker described the Times newsroom he joined in 1954 as “comically overstaffed.” Baker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington reporter and columnist, quoted a colleague’s explanation for all the idle reporters playing bridge and working crossword puzzles:
Adolph Ochs, who bought The [...]

Patrick Smith – @psmith - Sep 21, 2009 4:13 AM ET
While some continue to talk about charging for online news content, others are busy doing it. The latest member of the paid content club is weekly public affairs magazine The Spectator, which on Thursday removed all current and archive magazine content from its website and launched a campaign to get [...]

On TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on March 17, 2009

Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications, to legally offer some of their content to Scribd’s community free of charge. Publishers have begun to add an [...]

Who owns the content in the social network and who controls it?

A Medical Publisher’s Unusual Prescription: Online Ads By some measures, the medical publishing world has met the advent of the Internet with a shrug, sticking to its time-honored revenue model of charging high subscription fees for specialized journals that often attract few, if any, advertisements…more