Roundup: Paid Business Model Edition

By Steve Safran 

  • Global Post, which hoped for 25,000 paying members, has fewer than 500. Is changing pricing model. Good for them for being transparent. (Disclosure: I worked for Global Post boss Phil Balboni.)
  • Times of London, which lost 90 percent of its readership when it erected a pay wall, is giving iPad readers another free month.
  • TV host Peter Funt writes in WSJ that people will pay for content. Incorrectly compares web to HBO, satellite radio.
  • News Corp. considering hiring tablet-only news team for subscription service.
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