[LINK] Newspapers online

[David Goldstein]

Ivan and Karl, mention the large readership of Indian and Chinese newspapers. But they are not global players like several British or American news outlets. Plus the markets may be large but there is little money. Hence why, as many people say, Google pulled out of China. They made very little money there and so their decision was very easy.

Newspapers such as The Guardian and New York Times are widely read throughout the world.

And once people get over the anti-Murdoch sentiment that pervades this list, people might have a reasonable debate on the pluses and minuses of paywalls for news content. At least the press in the UK has been debating this with interesting points for and against.

David



----- Original Message ----
> From: Ivan Trundle <ivan at itrundle.com>
> To: Link list <Link at anu.edu.au>
> Sent: Sun, 28 March, 2010 7:10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Newspapers online
> 
> 
On 28/03/2010, at 6:17 PM, David Goldstein wrote:

> I suggest you 
> read the discussions on the move by The Times and Sunday Times in greater 
> detail.

I have: it's one of my favourite areas of interest. Might I 
> suggest that you come down off your high horse?

> Sure every country 
> has some differences, and the BBC and ABC will benefit. But you seem to fail to 
> understand that the BBC/ABC receives their money from licence 
> fee/government.

No, I do not.

> You seem to not realise that 
> the 2 aforementioned papers only need a small percentage of their online readers 
> to pay for access for them to be getting more money than they currently do from 
> online advertising.

No, I do not.

> Just because millions of 
> people read your newspapers online doesn't mean you earn much money from 
> advertising.

I was making no comparisons with advertising revenue and the 
> profitability of a news media outlet.

> As for the Chinese and Indian 
> newspapers, VERY few people outside those countries will want to read 
> them.

So what? Their readership is large enough to warrant a different 
> outlook.

> The large mass market newspapers (and the BBC) in the UK 
> and mass market papers in the US are global media outlets now.

They've 
> got a long way to go before they are truly global in news presentation. And 
> whilst Murdoch might have a global presence, each market is 
> different.

iT
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