I'm thinking of instituting a paywall for this blog. Everybody else is doing it. The New York Times allows you to read half a dozen articles a month. When you go over, you have to pay the publisher. Ditto the Ottawa Citizen , which has also recently instituted a paywall and ditched its Sunday paper (come on. Do you really miss it?) It's taken these Masters of the Printerverse three decades to realize what every school girl knows: nobody will buy the cow if they can get the milk for free. Back in the 1980s, I used to work as a consultant for Infomart when newspapers were first digitizing. My job was to run around to various government departments and get them to buy the service, even before it was up. This was a real smoke-and-mirror operation because we didn't have really have a product and we wanted taxpayers to pay us to get it up and running. Strangely, we managed to get a lot of bureaucrats excited about online newspapers, which we convinced them were the fut...
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