Shirky on paywalls. Prior to reading the article, I had thought that paywalls, even leaky ones, were generally working OK, much against my expectations. I guess I shouldn't necessarily believe what I read in the papers…

My questions from a first read: how will news organisations reward their key / core users? How will news organisations deal with an increasingly opinionated / political paying readership?

I pay for my newspaper in electronic form, simply because SCMP has a neat "weekend hard copy and weekday electronic" model which works for us very well.

Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users « Clay Shirky

Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users. This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. One early sign of this shift was the …