Pricing Online Content: Fee or Free
Do good things always come with a price tag? The advent of the internet in 1991 was accompanied with the arrival of useful and meaningful content in abundance. That is still the case today, with new websites coming up every day--blogs, webpages for cooking fanatics, forums for techies, and whatnot. Businesses are well aware of the fact that advertising on social networking sites, podcasts, live broadcasts, etc. is imperative for growth and development. To lure in potential customers, content with gold’s worth is given away for free. The question that now arises is, should it really be distributed for free or a price should be levied on the same? With millions of search results popping up when you turn to a search engine for your requirements, it’s unlikely that you’ll pay to access something which is available for free on some other site. It’s well noted that top-notch companies who often tried to wall off their services behind subscription charges have faced the wrath of th