The Long Tail: What does the Media Business Model mean?
But when people think of the "media business model", they usually just think of advertising. That's a big part of it, to be sure, but as those of us in the media business know, it goes far beyond that.
Here's my start at a list all the revenue models you can find in the media industry, all based around a core of free or almost-free content:

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