What do Write Em Cowboy, Jack Of Diamonds, Colin Tattum, Chris Lepkowski, Chris Lakey, Dave Prentice, et al all have in common? The right to earn a living from their passionate, niche labours.
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This took us down a familiar path...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/aug/25/charging-for-content
As, in fairness, did the original...
http://www.allmediascotland.com/spike/4493/24082009/Brian_McNair_Writes_About_Charging_for_Journalism
It's all interesting stuff; and coming at a highly-charged time, too, as Rupert Murdoch leads the head-long charge towards building walled garden after walled garden around his content and TrinityMirror swallow hard and contemplate taking The Birmingham Post to a weekly and the Mail to a morning.
All of which prompts Mr McNair to ponder just what, exactly, would he pay for online, journalistically?
And the answer is opinions. Ideally the opinions of the opinionated. For that he would pay.
'Those who buy one newspaper, but find an article on another’s online ...