Guardian tech has published a story this week about the cost of the BBC website for users and license payers, leading to some very interesting discussions about paywalls. There is some confusion over the exact cost of the site depending on how you calculate things (not all license fee payers use it – while not all users are license fee payers etc), but roughly the figure is either 67p/month for each license fee payer, or £8.04 per year.
It should be noted however that this is based on the BBC’s own figures for how much it spent on its online service – which doesn’t take into account the fact that much of the material is sourced from its news or radio arms…