So says Michael Wolff, in his latest book “Autumn of the Moguls”, extracted at IWantMedia: “Ubiquity has become the main media standard…So this is elemental: The more available content is, the inherently less valuable it is…”
“Paying for content — at least content for content’s sake — has become an un-American trait. We believe in getting it all, a bigger and bigger bundle for a lower and lower price. The flat fee rules; we don’t even pay for long-distance telephone calls anymore. And a flat fee is very close in function and perception to no fee.”
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