Re: [Swprograms] OT: How much will you pay to get your news online?

[<jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a tough clawback to engineer, it seems.  The NY Times has taken several approaches to this, the most recent one being that you get free access to the content in the daily paper, along with blogs, comment opportunities and the like.  You would pay (although I think almost no one would) for value-added services like TimesReader, and online version that looks exactly like the daily paper and archive access.  If you are a subscriber to the paper version at any level (Sun. only, weekender (F,Sa, Su), daily only, weekend only, 7 day), you get all the value added features free.  With the recent (6/1) price increase for the paper version, they've done something very interesting.  You pay more than the single copy price for less than a 7 day commitment; but much less than the single copy price if you make the 7 day commitment.  So, where I live, if you are a Sunday only subscriber, you pay $7.50 a week for the Sunday paper that sells at the newsstand for $6.  But if you take the!
  seven day subscription, you pay "only" $14.80 for papers that would cost you $18 a week at the newsstand.

Who knows what will work in the end.  There's apt to be a lot of experimenting... Facebook, Twitter, argh!!!!!

John Figliozzi

---- Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090603/how-much-will-you-pay-to-read-your-news-online/
> 
> Discussion about how newspapers are trying to find ways to get people
> to pay for what they're reading.
> 
> It reads something the PBS and NPR models -- "we know some people will
> pay for what they read {listen to...watch...]..."
> 
> 
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> Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA
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