AP: Milking this whole Internet-as-primary-news-source thing

The Associated Press will soon charge news outlets for online use of its stories and photos. AP plans to implement a fee schedule to subscribers in January 2006, to be determined this summer, according to Newsday. This, for a change, is not good news for newspapers, whose circulation numbers as we know are dropping, which translates into less ad revenues to pay for AP web fees. It’s not great for the websites who run AP stuff, either, I guess.