First Click Free

September 28, 2009 No comments yet

Quick post on something I only found out about a few weeks ago:
Google has a program to allow publishers with paywalls to include their results in Google’s rankings, whilst allowing searchers to read the article they click off to for free.
I’m sure most publishers considering paid content have seen this, but for those who haven’t…
It’s [...]

Mobile Industry Review Blog goes subscription only, charges £12,000 per year

March 13, 2009 No comments yet

Yesterday leading mobile blog Mobile Industry Review announced it is to stop providing it’s content for free to readers and instead charge for access.
One company has bought our entire output exclusively, on-going. We are, in effect, becoming a private research company.
Our new client is unwilling to subsidise our existing audience of readers (300-400k last [...]