Amazon Takes One Small Step Toward Monetizing Online Content
Posted: May 15, 2009
Amazon’s latest Kindle experiment could be the start of something big: a way to persuade consumers to pay for online content. By paying a nominal price for a subscription, users can have automatic access to their favorite blogs. There are a number of drawbacks to the model, but if it budges the “free content” paradigm even slightly, it could be a game changer.
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has opened another front in its push to establish the Kindle as the dominant e-reader in the market. The company is allowing bloggers to offer their posts in a subscription format via the Kindle store…….[read entire article]
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