{"id":2553,"date":"2009-07-12T08:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2009-07-12T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T13:42:30","slug":"more-on-the-freemium-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"More on the “Freemium” Business Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

We talked before about the concept of ‘Freemium’ here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New York Times <\/em>Sunday Book Review offers a more in-depth analysis of ‘giving it all away’ in Virginia Postrel’s article:\u00c2\u00a0 “What you pay for $0.00.”<\/a><\/p>\n

An excellent piece, that breaks it all down quite nicely, though absent again, I have to say is any mention of the effect of ‘fairly priced goods’ on the idea of selling cheap and easy to replicate products.<\/p>\n

That’s the real issue. Digital content providers who overcharge create a demand for shared or pirated versions. As the article says, people will pay for what they love, but they know when someone’s taking advantage of them, yah<\/em>?
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