Comments on: The myth of ‘inevitable’ paid content http://jeffsonderman.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-inevitable-paid-content/ on journalism, tech, life. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Mubashar Iqbal http://jeffsonderman.com/2010/02/the-myth-of-inevitable-paid-content/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Mubashar Iqbal Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:40:08 +0000 http://jeffsonderman.com/?p=327033416#comment-384 The thing that these pundits forget to tell us is that newspaper content NEVER paid enough to pay for the creation of the original content. The majority of newspaper revenue always came from the classified ads, not sales, ad revenue or subscription fees. Newspaper were too afraid of cannibalizing their offline classifieds to make the move online in the wake of Craigslist and similar services. Now they've missed the boat completely. The thing that these pundits forget to tell us is that newspaper content NEVER paid enough to pay for the creation of the original content.

The majority of newspaper revenue always came from the classified ads, not sales, ad revenue or subscription fees.

Newspaper were too afraid of cannibalizing their offline classifieds to make the move online in the wake of Craigslist and similar services. Now they’ve missed the boat completely.

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