Content must be paid for
I MUCH appreciated your interview with Nick Davies, but I am not happy with his assumption that “the punters won’t pay for online news”.
The notion that all information on the web should be free is absurd.
In fact, the web is full of articles, including some of mine, for which you have to pay; the problem is that the process is too cumbersome and expensive.
Subscribe to a journal, or buy an entire issue, just to read one article? No, thank you.
The pressing need is to develop quick and easy ways of paying “small change” per article to read any article one fancies, on its own.
Angus Sibley
Paris