| Let this be a lesson to them Let this be a lesson to any media outlets that are thinking of doing something like this. Unless you have a very specialized product that isn't available anywhere else, you're flirting with disaster.
Oh Rupert, I so hope that you try this. |
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cacoPremium
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1 edit | You forgot to include the New York Times. It is planning on going behind a pay wall at end of the year. I'm sure the news sent chills up the owners of Times.
The pay wall only works if all news outlets do it because as long as there is another source for same news and that source is free then I don't see many buyers.
How much are you willing to pay for news from Newsday,NYT or News Corp?
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Camden, TN | reply to ISurfTooMuch
said by ISurfTooMuch:Let this be a lesson to any media outlets that are thinking of doing something like this. Unless you have a very specialized product that isn't available anywhere else, you're flirting with disaster. Oh Rupert, I so hope that you try this. Rupert thinks because this works for WSJ it will work for all newspapers. First WSJ is specialized. Second the kind of people that read WSJ have money and have no qualms for paying for shit like this. |
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You have count all the subscribers of the physical paper which they did not do. They are paying for both the paper and the website.
If they already has the market saturated with physical paper subscriptions then 35 extra for website only is not bad.
The only way to see the value is to see how many physical paper subscribers actually use that site also how many cablevision customer use that site.
If everyone has cablevision cable tv in the area then you already have everyone signed up.
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said by ISurfTooMuch:Oh Rupert, I so hope that you try this. Didn't he make the web version of the Wall Street Journal free after he bought it?
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said by caco:I'm sure the news sent chills up the owners of Times. Of course not!
(SARCASM)
You see, they are smarter then everyone else and they will do it right. You just have to read their editorials to realize they are way smarter than the rest of us.
(/SARCASM)
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As a Cablevision customer I get Newsday online, but I gave up on using it after the redesign. It's way too busy and annoying to deal with. |
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said by pnh102:Didn't he make the web version of the Wall Street Journal free after he bought it? I think they made it so selected articles can be viewed, but the rest is behind the paywall.
in addition, there is a workaround they know about but have not blocked yet: if you google the title of the article, you can get a link that takes you to the full article, even if it is behind the paywall.
that's OK, the WSJ is starting it's rightward shift in it's business reporting, so eventually nobody is going to want to read it for that anymore anyway. |
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Dallas, TX | said by nasadude:that's OK, the WSJ is starting it's rightward shift in it's business reporting, so eventually nobody is going to want to read it for that anymore anyway. Foot, meet gun, Rupert Murdoch.
The same may occur with the NYT. They tried putting their online content behind a paywall once, and it didn't go over well with their readers.
If they are going to charge a monthly access fee just to read a few articles, many are going to go elsewhere as they will think it isn't worth it, especially during a recession.
But they do appear to be considering allowing a few free monthly readings.
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yup........go ahead and kill your company rupert |
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same here, is "too busy" |
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