Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
Not to mention I won't be able to share links to articles with other people who I think might be interested.
People get stuck behind this idea that people won't pay for the sake of not paying, however I don't think that is the issue here. I would seriously consider paying for a good quality product.
A scheme which, so I am told, has been implemented by some media organizations is to track you as you access their site. If you've read n-1 articles and now try to access the nth article, you'll be presented with a log in form asking you to establish an account and pay for the opportunity to read more. You can still send links to others, who can read the articles as long as they don't exceed the threshold (or exceed it within a given amount of time, depending on exactly how the scheme is set up). Obviously, casual readers don't pay anything, but regular readers do, under this arrangement. Now I am not trying to support or criticize this scheme here; I am just describing it.