Alcara Launches Premium Content Store

Alacra, one of the B2B premium content vendors/distributors, has launched a biz/consumer-focused online store, called the AlacraStore, in beta. It has information from sources such as D&B, CreditSights, Thomson Financial, Freedonia, Snapdata, Hemscott, SourceMedia and Datamonitor, and it plans to add more.

Alacra investor Fred Wilson has a post explaining the move. It is an attempt to crack open the individual business user market, an area in which others like HighBeam and to some extent the new NorthernLight are trying to operate in, but Alacra tries the pay-per-use model.

While I like the technical implementation of the new AlacraStore, the pricing scheme is bordering on, well, ridiculousness. Individual news stories from news sources are priced at anywhere from $8 to $15 (here’s an example from eContent magazine; another from Philadelphia Inquirer ). I am sure there’s a logic to the pricing (read: this is what we get from the aggregators), but not sure if the consumer cares.

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