Via the Washington Post:

“Seeing all this, Japanese newspapers have no intention of giving away on the Web what their readers remain willing to pay for in print…”

So the papers in Japan guard their business by refusing to give away content online so readers will keep buying their dead-tree medium. Does anyone else find this ridiculously short-sighted? Hmm, I guess it might work for now but it definitely isn’t a sustainable business model. It would be almost effortless for a new player to disrupt the market by offering free quality content online.

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