What Price Creativity?

I imagine there are podcasts out there that I'd pay for. But I haven't heard them yet.

To pay on a PER podcast basis it would have to be something special. The only thing that comes to mind is perhaps a very well done key note speech, or a live concert event with backstage talk with the band or something of that nature. Any individual podcast I can not imagine.

I can see a subscription model working much better then an individual show one, but again it would depend on the podcast.

I wonder if there will be emergency podcasts.
With more young people using podcasts for information and communication it would appear podcasting could help with communications in a national emergency. I still use an old radio, because I'm not a big storage person. There's always something new and now it's podcasting.

The EAS page says,
"The EAS system was established by the FCC in November of 1994 with the approval of Part 11 EAS rules. The EAS replaced the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) as a tool the President and others may use to warn the public about emergency situations."

I'll know it when I see it. So far, I haven't.
In the mean time, I just deleted 42 unheard podcasts, they take way too much time. I can scan a thousand blogs in the time it takes to listen to one podCast.

I would happily pay for Shel & Neville's excellent podcast, though I suspect that the comment-based nature of their show would suffer as a result of the inevitable reduction in audience figures. Their first show was the first podcast that I listened to and I've been an avid subscriber ever since.

As an ex-pat Brit I would probably pay a podcast version of the BBC's license fee if I could then choose from all of their radio shows. Yes, I can listen to them on their site but I listen to podcasts when I'm travelling so this option is not available.

Otherwise I suspect that my criteria would be that if I'm prepared to pay for the content in other formats - a magazine like the Economist for example - I would consider paying for a podcast version of it. The podcast would have to be as good as the Economist in its field however.

As soon as I saw the integration in iTunes where podcasts are part of the store I thought that chargeable content was inevitable. My guess is that it is one of the reasons that Apple moved into the market. Apple is also one of the brands that I personally would trust to handle the payments.

Heather-
If I could find a service that would round up a system of podcasts I'd pay. It would be like going to the bookstore that had that really great book buyer. How great was it to go to your favorite bookstore back in the day? I can imagine that there's loads of material out there - I just don't have the time to rummage it all. Imagine a download site organized like amazon, but run by someone with a point of view.....

Pete Z.

I would pay a few euro's for selected MP3 files out of the IT Conversations collection of interviews and presentations.

Marcel de R.

I was just wondering if a podcast about gas prices and where you can go to find the cheapest gas would be something worth paying for if so checkout http://gasradio.com/GasItUp/podcast.php my podcast.

ellison

I am about to launch a new weekly podcast on March 31st that will provide useful information to poets who would like to know how to find poetry markets, how to submit their work, how to start a poetry writers group, how to publish a poetry chapbook, how to self publish a book of their poetry, etc. I hadn't thought of charging for it.

It's meant to publicize the non-fiction book I'm finishing up over the summer for release in September 2006 - "The Poet's Manual: How to go From Aspiring Writer to Published Author and Beyond."

I think that knowledge - whether it's in book, electronic or audio format - has the right to have a price set on it. Perhaps I will eventually do that myself.