E-Content Firms Finding Ideal Selling Model Elusive

摘要

The honeymoon is over. Toppling off the crest of me wave of high-tech mania, the so-called dot-com economy is in a nosedive that is taking stock prices down with it and sending burned investors into retreat. Where will it go from here? If nothing else, a shift in awareness is unfolding. "Content is king" meets "information wants to be free" - is that Internet-era thinking already old? The following article is the first of three that take a look at the evolving online content market, including delivery of traditional services in digital format over the Web and via e-mail or streaming media. Is there money to be made in the future as the online audience must be trained to deal with the reality in which the business world now finds itself? What once was "free " may now come at a price or not at all.