{"id":2661,"date":"2009-01-20T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T03:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2009-01-20T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T03:36:09","slug":"buy-none-get-one-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/buy-none-get-one-free.html","title":{"rendered":"Buy None, Get One Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7811481.stm\"><strong>Buy None, Get One Free<\/strong><\/a> is an article that appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC News<\/a> that does a good job explaining one of the business models for the changes sweeping information services (a broad topic covering anything from music to news to journal articles).<\/p>\n<p>It certainly isn&#8217;t the only business model we will be seeing a great deal of:\u00a0 consider ad-supported content on the web, or communal\/consortial purchasing (like libraries and databases).\u00a0 These have been around for years, but the important part is that the cost to supply the content is rapidly decreasing; the main cost is providing it in the first place.\u00a0 This is forcing information providers to change.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner we understand this, really understand this in our bones, the sooner we have the potential to see the benefits in our budgets and in our services.<\/p>\n<p><em>found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlham.edu\/~peters\/fos\/2009\/01\/making-digital-goods-free-for-users.html\">Open Access News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy None, Get One Free is an article that appeared in BBC News that does a good job explaining one of the business models for the changes sweeping information services (a broad topic covering anything from music to news to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/buy-none-get-one-free.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943,2944,2948],"tags":[4243,4245,4774,4244,5358],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-library-20","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-change","tag-changes-sweeping-information-services","tag-information-services","tag-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-GV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}