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I’ve been think­ing about how to make money from online con­tent since I launched Fray in 1996. Really, I can’t tell you how many nights I’ve sat up, obsessed with it. It’s been my white whale. And here’s what I’ve come up with: a lit­tle bit of adver­tis­ing works, so long as it’s classy, and sell some paper if you can. But any plan that includes walling off your con­tent from the rest of the web is des­tined to fail, unless it’s porn of some kind (finan­cial data is a kind of porn).

Tomor­row, if the stars align, Apple could unleash a device that’s sex­ier than read­ing a mag­a­zine. A glossy screen like the iPhone, qual­ity con­tent in the iTunes store for a (hope­fully) rea­son­able price, major pub­lish­ers on board and inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ers like me able to join in.

via Derek Powazek — What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomor­row.

The first bit of the quote is worth read­ing the whole thing, the fact that on-top of it comes an idea and a hope of what Apple could do with a tablet like device is even better.