Most commercial Web sites still do not charge for viewing, though some do, and others charge for “premium” offerings. “It was never really free,” said Thomas R. Eisenmann, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “The hope was that advertising would pay for everything. That’s not necessarily a flawed model. It has just been a lot harder than most people thought.”
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