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Re: electronic publishing



On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Paul Jones wrote:

> following up on Michael's note on bylines: notice any other subscription
> only or pay-per-view sites on the Net? Notice any that have changed from
> free to pay or from pay to free? is there anything that these site have in
> common?

	Lots of the newspapers have turned to registration and fees now
that once used to be free.

	Audio/Video, however, is where I think the ppv stuff is *really*
going to come into play.  I use lots of AV sites on a daily basis (I have
ROV running in the background as I type) and those places are already
starting to use registration and password requirements (and, boy... do
they spam you!!!) and are all moving towards ppv.  I think they're just
testing it on us with the registration stuff... see how many people dro
and judge it from there.

	It's going to suck, thou, if they do go ppv.  Man.

	So, basically, what I'm saying is... look for sites that are
adding registration and password protection stuff.  Those are the ones
going ppv first.  

	Bascha


     M. Caroline Harris ("Bascha") @ http://sunsite.unc.edu/bascha
     SunSITE CEARCH, Web Geek @ http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco
     Web Editor, The Daily Tar Heel @ http://www.unc.edu/dth
     bascha@sunsite.unc.edu     
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