Comments on: Paywalls – Some Newspapers on the Wrong Track? http://www.openeducation.net/2010/07/22/pay-wall-newspapers-on-the-wrong-track/ Free Education for All Fri, 13 May 2011 00:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Joseph Thibault http://www.openeducation.net/2010/07/22/pay-wall-newspapers-on-the-wrong-track/#comment-8677 Joseph Thibault Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:52:40 +0000 http://www.openeducation.net/?p=3192#comment-8677 Totally agree, the issue for these publishers (even the ones with crack reporters) is that there is a repetitive abundance of news coverage on the web. Odds are very high that the "walled garden" content is available in near exact form, tone and depth somewhere else for free. The internet audience (including bloggers) will naturally migrate to those open sources. This is a great read on a similar topic: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/04/jonathan-stray-on-original-reporting-imaginary-abundance/ Totally agree, the issue for these publishers (even the ones with crack reporters) is that there is a repetitive abundance of news coverage on the web. Odds are very high that the “walled garden” content is available in near exact form, tone and depth somewhere else for free. The internet audience (including bloggers) will naturally migrate to those open sources.

This is a great read on a similar topic: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/04/jonathan-stray-on-original-reporting-imaginary-abundance/

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