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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
Mainstream is a big term. It depends on what you are selling. But in general Manwin and the filelockers aren't in Mainstream giving away free TVs, computer hardware and cars by the millions everyday, are they?
You have to be an idiot in the first degree to not understand that if someone gives away the product for free it's going to hurt your sales of that product. It's the most basic of business sense and economics. But still somehow in this industry there is no shortage of whores who are more than willing to swallow the cock of a pirate so they can stick around for another year.
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Have you heard of these little things called newspapers and magazines?
The vast majority of all np/mag online content is supported by ad revenue. The WSJ can get away with a pay model because the WSJ is the WSJ. The NYT just implemented a digital subscription model last summer (
see here) and it seems to be working this time, but their last attempt to do so with TimesSelect was widely regarded as a complete and utter failure.
In case you weren't aware, writing for such publications requires an impressive college degree. IE, not from just some shit college. And then once they get the job, journalists with advanced degrees from Ivy League schools have to essentially compete for airtime with uneducated snarky bloggers while scrapers are ripping their content.
Here are bunch of other sites where ad revenue has replaced product revenue.
http://www.iac.com/Our-Businesses/
Did you know that once upon a time people used to have to actually go to the store to buy a Thesaurus? Crazy stuff.
Anyway, I suggest that you should try to either write less or be smarter.