How can services like news.google.com, newsisfree.com, presstoday.com
(for Italy) have a positive ROI for companies that run and offer them?
In other words, can someone explain their business model, telling how
much is earned from ads, how much from commercial agreements with the
single sources of news, what are the legal agreements (especially for
contents available only to subscribers), etc.. Is there finally today
any clear chance to start up a specific service where the user pays
for an access to news extracted from external sources, or this must be
for free anyway? In case there is this chance, is a commercial and
legal agreement with those sources mandatory or optional?
Please be sure to answer these questions, while covering all possible
aspects of the business model and all other relevant aspects of this
subject.
A brief and clear point of view will be acceptable, but your answer
has to be supported by reliable and well specified paper or Internet
references or by documented personal experiences. |
