Google says that it will soon start charging readers to read news from various publishers. Reader will have to pay the news publisher concerned for reading more than five articles on any given day. That means, online news content is going to be unavailable at no cost.
Publishers of news online and newspapers had urged Google to remove free access to online news articles because they were losing revenue from the news they bring. So far people are able to access news content for free hosted on Google news. According to reports by the British Broadcasting Corporation, some users have discovered that contents that need to be paid to be viewed are often available at no cost in Google. In a response to these complaints, Google has come up with a new solution that will remove free access to news contents as well as smile from most of the online non-paid news readers.
Less Differences existing between printed newspaper and online.
Google will let the publishers use its new program that will force readers to pay in order to get access to more than five contents on any given day. This means if a publisher uses this program, their content will be available on Google but under a barrier. A reader will be able to read through five contents a day. As soon as he clicks the sixth headline, he will be prompted to register/subscribe or will be redirected to the concerned publisher’s payment page.
Publishers were not so happy because they were not generating any revenue while Google was earning advertising revenue by providing contents for free.
The web is sharing mixed reaction on this context. Most people are not so happy to pay for reading news online, while experts say that it is a good idea.
