“The Wall Street Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry and iPhone, News Corp. CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference. He didn’t offer a time frame for the charges, but indicated it would it start in a few months,” David Kaplan reports for paidContent.
“Further down the road, Hulu can be expected to institute some sort of pay-per-view or subscription model, Murdoch said. The details there have yet to be worked out with NBC Universal and Disney along with other content providers,” Kaplan reports. “Additionally, Murdoch expressed some displeasure with Amazon’s Kindle. He much prefers the terms with Sony, though he didn’t offer specifics.”
Kaplan reports, “Murdoch offered a look at how the business is trying to capitalize on the shift from paper to digital, specifically by saying that sometime in the next few months, WSJ readers on Blackberry and iPhone will be charged $2 per week. [Murdoch also said], ‘More people will be buying their newspapers on portable, flexible devices instead of crushed trees. It won’t be soon, it could take 20 years. But there will be no paper, no printing plants, no unions. It will be a great future. For example, the Wall Street Journal has 17 plants, we’ve closed seven and will be outsourcing it. Each one we do, we reduce the cost of staffs and save a lot of money.’”
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