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The question these companies should be asking is, “How do we keep reporting and publishing good content?” Instead, though, they’re asking “How do we keep making enough money to support our existing management and advertising divisions?” John Gruber (Daring Fireball), Charging for Access to News Sites
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In industry after industry, I think we’ve got an opportunity to shift our policies towards supporting nimble, durable markets that mimic real networks: diverse collections of nodes with a few particularly well-connected hubs. Snarkmarket: Free Book Idea: Too Big to Succeed
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The trick with free is you need to leverage the free part to increase the value of something that is scarce and that you control, which is not easily copied. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick, Free Gone Wrong... Or Free Done Wrong