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azNephi 07/22/2009 06:43 PM Report
People are so news hungry why not...
Free now to see first paragraph of story. Pay to see whole story. And a day later all is free.
People could pay a monthly to see all stories now or they could pay story by story.
REMant 07/22/2009 02:25 PM Report
I've noticed this "freemium" business on the web. I think it evolved gradually out of clicks and views, as things have begun to get tougher. It is really no different from loss leaders, flat rate pricing, mass media advertising, franchising, Tupperware parties and other Ponzi-type devices intended to build mkts. And moving consumers up in price has been a major goal of marketers for many years as a result of greater efficiency and declining margins. Consider GM, moving ppl from Chevies, to Pontiacs, to Buicks, to Cadillacs. The problem with this is that in the process they have been left with fewer and fewer ppl to buy their cars period, and they, mostly the Cadillacs. I presume he does NOT mean that manufacturing is not making products cheaper, that's exactly what it did from the start, tho in the US it was masked by a shortage of labor throughout much of it development. In the '50s the effect of automation began to be a major concern, but it was there from the beginning, as a glance at the writings of people like William Cobbett will make clear. After all, what was the point of Adam Smith's pin factory? Prices have risen because this increase in efficiency has not been evenly distributed, much of it accruing to the owners of the means of production abetted by the labor of developing countries, and by the well-meaning response of providing ever easier money, as well as, by obdurate unionism and tariffs. As a result prices rise while "demand" slackens, just as in the USSR, and ppl no longer see any point in working or saving. In the mid-60's the term stagflation was coined to describe this process, but our ancestors would have called it simply corruption. Altho stuff can be more easily pirated in the digital sphere than elsewhere, I do not see anything substantally different about it with respect to this overall dynamic.
As I recall you can use the TurboTax website for free to check your return, but you cannot file it for free unless you are filing an EZ form. State is additional across the board and business larger than sole proprietorships, etc is not free in any form.
tartufe 07/22/2009 12:32 PM Report
Well, I "bought" it. Kindled it. The price was right. Zero. We'll see.