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Stephen Downes

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Well now we can quantify just how much more a closed platform costs consumers. The Wall Street Journal's closed platform edition - specifically, the one being sent to the iPad - will cost $18 a month. This is more than the print version costs, and significantly more than you pay on the open web. And "Time, People, Men's Health and Esquire will be offering subscriptions on the iPad at or close to the cover price of a print issue, the Journal reported."

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