Online paid content model found alive and well in Yonkers

Hat-tip to Craig Newmark who points out (via NYT) that Consumer Reports continues to achieve what conventional wisdom and the collective experience of online newspaper publishing tells us is impossible - not only do they charge readers to access their content online, they charge them the same as they do for the print product.

The apparent secret? "What they do is useful, practical, needed". I would add "unique", the other necessary condition for a successful paid content model.