News on Itunes
Some people have recently been suggesting that the best way to save the failing journalism business model would be to switch it to an iTunes like model. This would mean you would search the types of articles that you want and then pay by the article.
I don’t like this. Even with music iTunes has its flaws. People have been going around iTunes and illegally downloading music for their iPods since they have been around, the news would be no different. People are already rebelling against paying for online news, this will just intensify it. People will continue to find loopholes on the internet to get the news they are looking for. If that becomes too difficult, it won’t be long before pirating sites are created to get the news stories desired.
I think it is going to take more to save the industry then iTunes.
