Newspapers haven’t yet found the secret sauce of getting consumers to pay online, but games publishers certainly have. While Rupert Murdoch delays his grand paywall scheme and local papers start to tentatively get in on the act, Activision-Blizzard’s World of Warcraft celebrates its fifth birthday this week: its 12 million players pay £8.99/$15 per month (equivalent to £1.
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News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch warned us that this was coming: Two British News Corp. papers, The Times of London and The Sunday Times are raising a paywall around their online news. Starting in June, users will be charged £1 (a... Post Profile
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch warned us that this was coming: Two British News Corp. papers, The Times of London and The Sunday Times are raising a paywall around their online news. Starting in June, users will be charged £1 (a... Post Profile
The evidence is stacking up against the confidence of publishers like Rupert Murdoch who expect their readers to start paying for news online.A survey of 2,000 people by Lightspeed Research (via Mediaweek) found that…• 91% of resp... Post Profile