Andrew Sullivan going to metered paywall

[KharmaTrain]

8. The Wave Of The Future...

...it's a tough game out there for content providers. Ad revenues aren't cutting it for many bloggers as well as newspapers and magazines. Fewer people are reading the hard copy versions and there's a lot of people who have become accustomed to finding most of that same content online for free. While they love the expanded visibility they're looking for a way to generate a profit in the digital world. Going fully behind a paywall doesn't work...so we're seeing folks working on varying degrees of free and either pay/subscription or donation.