More on Pricing: John Levine comments on the research paper that The Standard piece, which prompted my piece yesterday, was based on. The summary: "People are willing to pay much more for point-to-point communication than for broadcast content, and successful services almost always move from complex pricing to low flat rates." And Doc chimes in with some further commentary. In part:
Interesting stuff.
When we shift our conceptual framework from shipping to real estate — from the World Wide Freight Forwarding System to the World Wide Commons — we get a much different model. In this vast yet intimate commons, people just want to show up and connect with each other (the Quaker verb would be meet). Like we're doing right now. It's not a lot more complicated than that. Or at least it doesn't have to be.
Interesting stuff.