The three-legged stool

    1. "Free" model
    • Promotional or marketing information
    • Advertiser-sponsored (to reach "eyeballs")
    • Non-commercial or personal

    2. "All you can eat" subscription
    • Similar to physical publishing
    • Doesn't exploit "one-to-one" opportunities
    • Forces "caching" or "aggregation"
    • Not always typical consumer behavior

    3. "By the click" per-item charging
    • Model has existed in private-network world
    • Similar to supermarket, videocasette rental, telephony
    • Unfamiliar model for traditional publishers
    • Revenue opportunity in sharing users, content