WSJ to start charging for iPhone content

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September 15, 2009

WSJ to start charging for iPhone content

Say farewell to the free Wall Street Journal on the iPhone.
According to Paid Content, News Corp's Rupert Murdoch announced that readers of the WSJ on the Blackberry and iPhone will be charged $2 per week for the privilege of reading news through the respective apps. Online and print subscribers of the WSJ will only pay $1 a week. No time limit has been set yet, but Murdoch says it will be within the next few months.

via tuaw.com

Translated: one less app on my iPhone.

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Sep 15, 2009

Josh Friedlander said...

If it's not worth it to you, OK, but you make it sound like it's unreasonable for them to charge for the service. Is it? They have to get paid somehow. Free isn't a business model.

Sep 15, 2009

Jeff Ventura said...

Murdoch is hellbent on trying to charge for content when the entire media industry is going the other way. I won't pay for their content, and other folks are finding it unreasonable too.

Did you see the part of the article about Hulu being a pay-for model? If that happens, I'll bet anyone right now a nice pint of Guiness that Hulu will never take flight like it could.

I don't believe Murdoch gets new media.

To be fair, I guess we'll see how the experiment pans out. But I'm guessing it won't be pretty.

Jeff Ventura

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