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Newsweek: In Which Time Inc. Rides on the Wall of Death One More Time

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An interesting perspective on Time’s sorta pay wall.

Like second marriages, Time magazine’s new, extra-confusing pay wall is the triumph of hope over experience. The company has tried this before, and the results were predictable: traffic to the Time Inc. sites cratered and the added revenue from forcing people to buy the print product didn’t…

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   An interesting perspective on Time’s sorta pay wall.

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   Absolutely disastrous for Time. It’s as if they intend to further make themselves irrelevant! I doubt the traffic to...

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   I agree. This is one of the reasons I PAY and have PAID for years to have a Flickr account. I enjoy the layout for...

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12. iamafungirl said: “Third, remember that people will pay for value. They’ll pay for unique content; they’ll pay for a better reading experience—like, for instance, an iPhone app that nicely formats the content to fit the small screen” — which is why I pay for flickr.
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