07-25-2007, 04:15 AM
aquariancore Wrote:If they go to being a pay site then they will lose AP and Reuters which prohibit reselling of their materials. AP and Reuters supplied over a third of they feeds.
If you watch what companies usually do, you see that they offer something free for a while, get a nice group of people hooked and dedicated, then start adding fees. They start with small fees to try not to scare off those who are paying attention, and pretty soon the company is making 10 times what they were making originally, and they haven't lost that many customers in the process.