Where on earth did you hear that? You are already paying for emails by paying for broadband.
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Where on earth did you hear that? You are already paying for emails by paying for broadband.
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Sending as well as receiving email uses considerable bandwidth which equals dollars. Companies that use newsletter services, Constant Contact, Mailchimp etc are paying an additional charge.Originally Posted by DebraK
There is also a considerable cost to producing the emails, you can see which ones are more professional than others.
Facebook is now charging businesses to send updates to all the people who have liked their page.
It costs money to produce videos, I think we have been lucky to have free access to so many for so long. It also costs a lot of money to host videos, stream videos etc.
We often forget that as well as end users needing an internet connection, the video, needs to be uploaded to Youtube, stored there (storing and backing up data costs money), then there is the bandwidth to serve the video to you.
I am not surprised that people are looking to recoup some of their expenses.
Attending University. I will graduate a year after my son and year before my daughter.
Michelleoc, charging for emails has been proven to be a myth! That is not going to happen.
As for MSC, if they are doing their own videos, and not posting anywhere but on their own site, that's their call. No one can make them charge if they don't want to. Craftsy seems to shoot a lot of theirs in a Denver Studio and host their own.
With the others that are being charged for - it might also be the publishing company that wants its cut.
I've heard about some of this - I own a Google phone, bought from Google. So stuff like this will appear on Android newsletters and forums.
Carol Doak has a lot of free patterns on her web site. If you are just learning how to paper piece she is the best. I took a class from her years ago and she was nice and patient and a great teacher.
I think that it is more likely that you are sent to Utube to sample the CD that comes with that particular book, to see if that is what you want to purchase. In order to save bandwidth, if you want to watch the whole thing, which is probably lengthy, then they want compensation for that time.
Yooper32 aka: Donna B
I sincerely hope this isn't the trend. I'm a visual learner and need someone to show me step by step instructions before it sinks into this challenged brain of mine. That's why I like MSQC's quilting videos...
Kitty
me too me too!! I think there wll always be the free videos, even sharon schamber has free ones but also has ones you have to pay for.
interesting for sure ..
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If there is a charge I won't be watching them. If they don't sell they will have to go to plan B.
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