Media veteran Steve Brill unveils paid content plans
LONDON - Someone had to make a statement about charging for content and media veteran Steve Brill's Journalism Online venture has. It hopes to charge for content online on behalf of newspaper and magazine publishers as well as deal with licensing of content. It's big news. It might be the start of something.
Whether it will succeed is one question, but unlike anything else recently discussed this is a concrete plan of action.
Brill, founder of Court TV and The American Lawyer, working with two partners (Gordon Crovitz, the former Wall Street Journal publisher and Leo Hindery, of InterMedia Partners and former CEO of cable firm TCI) are to offer newspapers an e-commerce platform (launching in the Autumn), which publications can use to charge in a variety of ways (daily, monthly, annual subscriptions or micro-payments).
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