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Old April 10, 2001, 09:42 PM
Dien Rice
 
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Default Information wants to be free!

But not any more....

Boyd, I'm glad you liked the site.... Did you try the negotiation simulations too? I warn you, they are addictive... :) But they are also educational!

About "without a revenue model which works" for information distribution, I agree with you, there are clearly profitable examples, which I agree will be the way of the future.... I think there will still be free information, but it will probably be more limited than it has been in the past, and be used more as a promotional tool for the information you pay for....

For example, I remember with Ken Evoy's "Make Your Site Sell" ebook, he gave you a couple chapters for free (if I remember correctly). I suspect that giving part of the ebook away for free will probably become more common....

Another example would be www.stratfor.com, which gives you a free report every day on "global intelligence" topics, but if you want more of the same, you have to pay for it....

- Dien