San Jose Mercury News to Charge For Online Content — congratulations to the SJMN for trying something, my regrets that it’s this. This business model didn’t fail in 1998 because there weren’t enough people on the Internet, it failed for the same reason it will fail now: you have a generic product and a cheaper substitute will win.

San Jose Mercury News To Charge For Online Content and Why it’s Doomed to Fail is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!