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80% of US Consumers Won’t Pay For Online Content

  • Written by Peter D. Marshall No Comments
    Last Updated: December 19, 2009

    This article was written by Frederic Lardinois.

    “According to a new Forrester survey, almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites. Those users who would consider paying for content are mostly interested in subscriptions. Only a very small number of consumers is interested in making micropayments (3%).

    The study also asked which distribution channel consumers would prefer if their favorite print publications ceased to exist. 37% preferred the web, 14% mobile phones and 11% would prefer to read the content on their laptops or netbooks. 10% would prefer PDFs delivered by email and 3% would read the content on their e-readers.

    44% of all respondents said that they wouldn’t be interested in getting their print content through any of these delivery mechanisms.”

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