Saturday, October 27

The death of subscription-model newspapers?

The question is simple, would you pay for your online news? Even though some are willing to fork over the modest subscription free for a physically printed copy of their favorite rag, I'd venture to say few would do the same for internet news (even the good stuff).

On Slate today, there was an article by Tim Harford covering the debate, in response to the recently announcement by the New York Times saying almost all its online news material would now be free. Apparently, they believe that ad revenue would more than make up for the loss of the quickly diminishing subscription money. I'm still skeptical.

You can read the article (which is only available in digital form) here, or visit Slate's homepage here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I read about that, too... weird.

by the way, that cat better be yours.