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Can Ongo get readers to pay for news content that’s already free, no matter how upscale?

By at January 27, 2011 | 9:41 am | 0 Comment

Can Ongo get readers to pay for news content that’s already free, no matter how upscale?

Can Ongo get readers to pay for news content that's already free, no matter how upscale? The ongoing trend of national news publishers banding together to create news "aggregators" to package together only the choicest bits of their content went high end Tuesday, after former Skype and eBay exec Alex Kazim launched a paid subscriber version dubbed Ongo, a partnership more...

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First Click Free programme From Google is to limit free news access

By at December 2, 2009 | 12:10 am | 0 Comment

BBC reported ,"Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced." Under the First Click Free programme, publishers can now prevent unrestricted access to subscription websites. Users who click on more than five articles in a day may be routed to payment or registration more...

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