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paywalls and commiserations

Posted Tue, 12/01/2009 - 07:54 by Richard Adler

There was quite a boomlet of articles today about the futures of journalism and publishing, from predictions of dark times ahead to good pieces about the pointlessness of paywalls. A summary for future reference:

A good article about what it means for NYC's literary set

A paywall that failed in Australia

Predictions for 2010 from the ever-thoughtful Kassia Krozser.

Another paywall that failed.

Jeff Jarvis argues media will have a future to the degree that it learns to stream to where the people are.

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