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In this highly competitive environment, business owners and web publishers, need to be creative and innovative inorder to survive. Facebook, Google, and YouTube, are typical examples of major web giants that have lead the way in those areas. Access to Facebook is free, and the tons of invaluable content available on Google, and YouTube are also free, however these companies are among the richest and most successful. It is reasonably safe to argue that companies have to meet operating cost, and overheads, but directly charging for information online may not be the most imaginative way to amass financial wealth.

Unless there is a collaborative effort among newspaper editorials, and writers, to set up paywalls, the idea may be one resulting in more harm than good. With the oceans of information available on the World Wide Web, it is relatively easy for readers to switch to sources that offer the service for free. Because of the way the internet culture is structured, people will resist anything with a fee attached to it.

According to MacArthur, “writing is work, writing has value, and writers should be paid”. I totally agree, but I would like to say to MacArthur that if your motive for writing is a financial one, then, you should think outside of the box, and look at the bigger picture, because publishing your work online for free, might be the best way to go.