Charging for Online Content

Individualist over at Dot Tactics has a great post about some of the different models being used to charge for content online. It was spurred by this post on The Teleporting Tattler blog.

Models talked about include:

• The Red Vs Blue "Sponsorship" model
• The Total Fark "Club" model
• The South Beach Diet model
• The New York Times "Select" model
• The eBay model
• The Meet Me at Hot or Not model

Individualist wrote:

I believe charging for content is a very tricky issue even if the content is of high value, but it can be done. A growing number of websites, and even some blogs, are experimenting with ways to earn more money from their content and yet still have an appeal for the extremely fickle Internet public. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but one thing is certain: the more websites try and shut their doors to non-paying users the more competitors will pop up trying to find a viable model to give their content away for free.

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