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A sign of things to come? With print newspapers folding, and income from online advertising down, is this what will happen with the more popular, general interest newspapers?
The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take.
Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site.
My daily print newspaper, the Washington Post, has increased the daily price in stores to 75 cents, and the Sunday paper is now $2.00 ... and both are noticeably smaller with less non-ad content. They increased prices due to reduced circulation. I really like a print newspaper but I've gone from buying the paper 7 days a week to 3 weekdays & Sunday (i.e., the increased prices have reduced my consumption).
Like so many things in modern life people have gone from low, or lower, tech to high tech internet or electronics this or that for news and much else that is NOT sustainable long term when the lights go out and the oil dries up.
The Bible says ,"the meek shall inherit the earth" to which one can rightly think that God ment those who live with the earth using a simpler low tech way of life that IS sustainable.
Well newspapers are a long outdated news source. With the inventions of cell phones with fast internet access there is no reason why I should have to buy a newspaper. For example, my Iphone has a New York Times app that lets access their website and get the most updated news for free(i bet this will change to a subscription service soon enough).
such a shame. I started reading the NYT regularly. It is informative, but there's no way in hell that I'm going to pay for such a liberally-biased, New York-centric publication.
Like so many things in modern life people have gone from low, or lower, tech to high tech internet or electronics this or that for news and much else that is NOT sustainable long term when the lights go out and the oil dries up.
The Bible says ,"the meek shall inherit the earth" to which one can rightly think that God ment those who live with the earth using a simpler low tech way of life that IS sustainable.
I'll make a final determination once I see the price. If it's $50 or less per year, I think I'd do it. Anymore and I'd really have to think about how much I use it. I'm not sure the NYT can provide anywhere near the same value as the WSJ, FT and Economist (3 publications worth paying for).
When I'm polled about how I get my news, they never ask the right question. In addition to TV, radio, newspapers, they think that when you go to a website for news, you go to a particular newspaper and sit and read that newspaper online. I know that isn't what I do. I go to someplace like Google News or Drudge Report and read the latest story on the topic from whatever newspaper it comes from. Or, if it's an event related story, I look for a newspaper local to that event. For example if there is a tornado in Missouri, I go to Google News, look for a Missouri news story and read that one. I don't sit there and read that whole Missouri newspaper online. In the Scott Brown win, for example, I wanted to see what the Boston papers had to say about it the day after. When he visited DC, I wanted to see what the DC papers said. If it's general politics, I look for the best info. I don't sit there and read everything on their website.
The answer is to make you view an ad (not a pop-up) before you read a story, just like you do on most video websites. The advertising will pay for it if the audience must view the ad first before the story appears. But I have no allegiance to any particular newspaper on ALL topics so why would I pay for access to their entire website when I only want to read one story on a particular day.
They drive me nuts sometimes, but the sometimes tough to admit truth(for me) is that they are a great paper with some incredible talent.
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