Will Internet Users Pay for Content?

securitas writes "One of the most challenging business problems is trying to figure out how to make money on the Internet, especially with content. Louis Borders believes that Internet users will pay for online content and explains in an interview the how and why. He is founder of Borders Group, a $3.4 billion company that is the second-largest bookseller in the USA, as well as the billion-dollar online grocer and dotcom flameout, Webvan. Borders thinks he has found the answers and has just launched KeepMedia, an online newsstand subscription service. As someone who has had spectacular success and failure in his career, Borders' latest venture will be an interesting one to watch."

Ask the right person

[marmot1101]

Why doesn't someone go ask Salon if people will pay for content?

"Content Delivery"?

[JZ_Tonka]

"With /. being one of the largest content delivery systems on the net..."

That's a very ambivalent way of phrasing "channeling thousands upon thousands of simultaneous connections to your website, reducing your servers to a pile of flaming wreckage".

Re:ramblings from a subscriber...

[514x0r]

i don't subscribe, but i did buy the hat.

15 percent pay for web subscriptions?

[mofochickamo]

I think it's at the turn of the hockey stick, because it's at about 15 percent of the Web population that's paying for content right now--that's still a low number

I didn't realize so many people had porn subscriptions.

Re:I agree, $5 is perfect

[Tackhead]

> Remember when the IN SOVIET RUSSIA troll wasn't played out? Ahhhhhh, the good old days.

Kids these days.

Back in the days of MEEPT and penis birds, all my base were belong to Natalie Portman. And IN SOVIET RUSSIA, posters old enough to remember when line was stand-up comedy, not a Slashdot cliche :-)

But looking back at what I just posted, I have one thing to say to Slashdot: Where the fuck is my life?!

Seriously, thanx Andover/VA. I don't know where my life is, but I'm enjoying it.