Future for subscription sites

External Since: Nov 09, 2003 Posts: 131

I'm playing around with some ideas for subscription sites and was wondering
what people generally think about them.

The only ones I know of that (appear to) have had some degree of success is
newspaper sites.

What has got me thinking about this is the amount of time I find it
sometimes takes to wade through google results/individual sites to find the
exact information I want, sometimes I would gladly pay someone else to find
the information for me.

Let's take holiday planning as an example of the sort of thing I am
thinking about. There are loads of sites for last minute offers and so on
but none that I have found for longer term planning. Let's say I want to go
on holidays to a particular resort next summer. What companies offer
holidays to that resort? How do their prices compare for a 2 week holiday?
If I want to find out, I can either spend a couple of hours going to/sitting
in a travel agent, pick up a load of brochures and wade my way through them,
or spend couple of hours browsing the companies' sites.

If there were a single website that could tell me what my options are for
that specific resort, I would willingly pay small amount (say 3 or 4 pounds)
for that information.

Does paid-for information have a future on the Internet?

Martin Harran

External Since: Sep 19, 2003 Posts: 3499

Martin Harran wrote:
> ...
> What has got me thinking about this is the amount of time I find it
> sometimes takes to wade through google results/individual sites to
> find the exact information I want, sometimes I would gladly pay
> someone else to find the information for me.
>

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