By Andrew Clark: Rupert Murdoch’s plans to impose fees for newspaper websites received a morale boost from research suggesting that as many as 48 percent of British and American consumers would be willing to pay a few pounds a month for online news.
A study by the Boston Consulting Group found a higher than expected level of willingness to stump up for journalism on the web. Britain and the US ranked lowest among nine countries surveyed, with as many as 66 percent of Finns, 63 percent of Germans and 62 percent of Italians polled declaring themselves open to paying for access to news websites.
At present, only 12 percent of British readers would pay anything for online news
This article originally appeared in © Guardian News & Media Ltd..

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