"...the sinking numbers in single copy digital sales suggest consumer dissatisfaction with either the apps or the distribution process or both."

""It's generating so many impressions, and we have such advertising demand for this that it would be a very poor business decision right now to put up a pay wall," said David Hunke, president and publisher of USA Today. "

"Andreessen asked me if TechCrunch is working on an iPad app or planning on putting up a paywall. I gave him a blank stare. He laughed and noted that none of the newer Web publications (..) are either. “”All the new companies are not spending a nanosecond on the iPad or thinking of ways to charge for content. The older companies, that is all they are thinking about."

"Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the iPad will transform the news business or do nothing of the sort. Here’s a roundup of some of the thinking."

"To let casual visitors in the door while challenging regular users to pay, you have to rely on cookies, and the cookie monster won't let you do that. Cookies just aren't very reliable for that purpose."

"Financial Times editor Lionel Barber predicted that “almost all” news organizations will be charging in a year just because they need to. Meanwhile, former McClatchy news exec Howard Weaver thinks that news orgs should get, oh, say, 10 percent of Google et al’s revenue because they, oh, should. Amazing how news people lose their sense when they talk about news."