QOTD: Would you pay for website access?

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Shaun

Would you pay for access to the websites you like? This is an initiative which is being explored by Newspapers, but I am curious as to if you would consider paying for access to your favourite websites? Personally, I wouldn’t and believe that websites need to stand on their own two feet to survive by other means.

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10 Responses to QOTD: Would you pay for website access?

  1. jah says:
    September 1, 2010 at 7:12 am

    I pay for web access to the Times @£8.99 per month. The web version works unllike the iPad version and includes the Sunday Times. Overall I think this is good value. Also, not using paper is green :-)

  2. Eliyahu says:
    September 1, 2010 at 7:42 am

    We already pay – internet is not free where I live and neither is 3G.

  3. gavinfabl says:
    September 1, 2010 at 9:24 am

    Only for proper quality stuff. I have read magazines using zinio app but one or two of the mags were poor.

    Whilst BBC News is free would spend £10 for the Times.

  4. Philippa says:
    September 1, 2010 at 11:19 am

    Yes, and I think we all will eventually. But it needs to be simple to pay for (e.g. one click paypal) and have good content, with some free stuff and decent price points to entice customers in. At the moment pricing is all over the place, with often overpriced and/or monthly subscriptions. Pressdisplay allow you to buy individual papers, which is good, but charge for each separate section so you pay more if you want the whole of a paper.

  5. Philippa says:
    September 1, 2010 at 11:22 am

    PS that doesn’t mean I think all websites will do this btw, but I expect all newspapers and magazines and really big media sites will, even if it’s for ad free versions.

  6. Graham says:
    September 1, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    Probably not except for PDA-247 of course

  7. KaptenHäst says:
    September 2, 2010 at 8:23 am

    “Eliyahu said:
    We already pay – internet is not free where I live and neither is 3G.”

    That is like saying “I Pay road tax, why should I pay AGAIN for the car?”

    Personaly I would proberly not pay for a website, they would need to raise their standard a lot for me to do that. I dont feel the need to pay to read lies about food and diets, the latest about celeberties or fake science leftish propaganda writen by slimy high school drop outs, damn, they should be paying me to read their stuff.

  8. Eliyahu says:
    September 2, 2010 at 9:16 am

    “Eliyahu said:
    We already pay – internet is not free where I live and neither is 3G.”

    That is like saying “I Pay road tax, why should I pay AGAIN for the car?”

    Well I do pay for the car and road tax: Internet, 3G, phone.

    There are already “Pay as you read” on the web for very select and financially secure people. What are all the ads for?

  9. Shaun says:
    September 2, 2010 at 9:20 am

    Don’t understand the ad comment? No reader pays for them.

  10. Eliyahu says:
    September 2, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Don’t understand the ad comment? No reader pays for them.

    Exactly. Hopefully the ads provide income for the sites so we don’t have to also “pay” to read.Donations are acceptable.