Roger Ebert – yes, *that* Roger Ebert – has some thoughts about how to make money off the Web: Have a “FreeWeb” and a “PennyWeb”:
“The obvious solution would be a simple fee of a penny a page. The technology to do this has existed for years; it would be channeled through credit cards. For most users, such a charge might come to perhaps a dollar a day, and yet the revenue would add up quickly for websites…The beauty of this model is that you would pay for what you actually wanted on a painless daily basis, instead of having to pay large sums for annual subscriptions….”
Given that the movie industry is having a horrid summer in the revenue department and creativity is so dull one studio is remaking “Summer School“, shouldn’t Ebert be focusing his mind powers toward the West Coast?
Here’s a link to the original story on which Ebert’s commenting.
Via Obscure Store
