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You’ll Have To Pay To Read Most Of Newsday Online
by Paul on 10/22/09 at 01:47 PM ET
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from Neil Best of Watchdog at Newsday,
Effective Wednesday - just in time for Game 1! (World Series) - most of Newsday.com’s content will be available free only to subscribers to Optimum Online and/or the printed version of Newsday.
That’s a group that covers most of Long Island and significant chunks of other parts of the metropolitan area.
Everyone else will have to pay, much as people currently do for other products they enjoy, such as movies, television, books, phone service, Internet connections, pizza, beer and ice cream.
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Lindas1st, nope. Not sure if the hockey writers at Newsday will be for pay only, we will just have to wait and see.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 10/22/09 at 02:15 PM ET
I think these newspaper web subscriber models are not going to work out well. They say that once something has been “free” and plentiful, you can’t just all of the sudden put a price tag on it and expect people to pay for it. They will just get it from another source that IS free.
Posted by BuzzFledderjohn on 10/22/09 at 03:07 PM ET
They’ve never worked well, BuzzFledderjohn. In Canada, the CanWest News Service shot itself in both skates by making their best content “subscriber-only,” and I’ve talked to one newspaper columnist who works for the Winnipeg Free Press, and he told me that their time as a “subscription” service was nothing less than a disaster from a readership standpoint and, overall, in terms of revenues. They actually make more money as a “free” service funded by advertisements.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 10/22/09 at 05:01 PM ET
I’m not sure how Newsday can charge for online toilet paper…
Posted by stoneman from vegas on 10/22/09 at 05:21 PM ET
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Posted by Lindas1st from New England on 10/22/09 at 02:01 PM ET