Re: UT: Have to pay for online articles « Reply #3 on Jun 21, 2012, 6:49pm »
It was only a matter of time before more newspapers adopted this model. You can't give your product away from free and expect to make a profit. Most people read the paper for free online now, and Internet advertising pays peanuts unless you have traffic levels in the millions per day. We aren't going to like it, but the old newspaper business model has been failing for years now. Change in this manner was inevitable.
Re: UT: Have to pay for online articles « Reply #5 on Jun 21, 2012, 6:58pm »
There will only be a few large newspapers, those that have national reach (NYT, WSJ), that are around in a few years. The traditional revenue sources of the industry like classified (now Craigslist & eBay), delivery subscription (why pay for something that is out of date the moment it is printed) and advertising (circulation is way down) have disappeared.
Re: UT: Have to pay for online articles « Reply #8 on Jun 21, 2012, 7:14pm »
No doubt this was inevitable anyway, but when Manchester took over, I figured the deadline would be fast approaching. That paper has become no more than a mouthpiece for his vast agenda - most of which I disagreee with. The website has been getting worse the last couple months too. Hasta.....
Nothing is certain but the fact that things change. We must adapt to college sports new economics.
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Re: UT: Have to pay for online articles « Reply #10 on Jun 21, 2012, 8:56pm »
Interesting. We were on the road for 7 weeks this spring and to keep up with what was happening in San Diego in general, sports and the comics I subscribed to the UT E edition. The entire newspaper on my iPad. My wife and I both have iPads and we sat, drnk coffee and perused the UT every morning.
It was very satisfying and a great war to keep up. In fact, I would cancel my home subscription and go entirely digital if the iPad app were modified to allow my wife to print coupons, ads, recipe's, etc. that's the only thing missing.
But, then again I'm not a UT hater, I recognize it for what it is, just as I do other information sources. While I was a way it really allowed me to keep up with the Aztecs and a whole lot of other stuff. I think this will be successful for them and become more commonplace.
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Re: UT: Have to pay for online articles « Reply #12 on Jun 21, 2012, 10:58pm »
Very strange pricing. I pay around $30 every 6 months to get Th through Sunday delivered and M-W online viewing. If I had to pay $13.95/mo, I would stop subscribing.
You can't give your product away from free and expect to make a profit.
What do you think all those annoying ads are for?
You may be surprised to know how little revenue those annoying ads actually generate - not very much!!
Only the largest websites can rely on publishing/advertising revenue. A local newspaper doesn't generate nearly enough traffic to produce any ad revenue of significance. Certainly not enough to support a legitimate newspaper staff - not even close. When was the last time you actually clicked on an online advertising banner?
Very strange pricing. I pay around $30 every 6 months to get Th through Sunday delivered and M-W online viewing. If I had to pay $13.95/mo, I would stop subscribing.
yea, 14 bucks a month is just insane to read a handful of local stories and a bunch of 18hour old wire reports
I wouldn't give them a penny. In fact, I'll send them money to never appear on my computer again. Garbage. I don't even line my bird cage with that sh!t.
After it folds, and a huge pent-up demand forms, we'll all learn what the next embodiment of news delivery services will look like. But it sure as hell isn't going to involve paper media being thrown on a front porch. I think iPad aps are going to evolve into something cool. For now, I think Flipboard is a high throughput functional news system. It'll all get better as we go.
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I wouldn't give them a penny. In fact, I'll send them money to never appear on my computer again. Garbage. I don't even line my bird cage with that sh!t.
After it folds, and a huge pent-up demand forms, we'll all learn what the next embodiment of news delivery services will look like. But it sure as hell isn't going to involve paper media being thrown on a front porch. I think iPad aps are going to evolve into something cool. For now, I think Flipboard is a high throughput functional news system. It'll all get better as we go.
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Adam Smith
Well fortunately for me, I don't give a toss about San Diego news. While San Diego is spectacularly beautiful and enjoyable place to live, the politics, happenings, news, culture - are all so thin and inconsequential - I don't mind that the news which describes all that is similarly thin and worthless. My suggestion - look at national and world news. After Aztec hoop and once or twice a year I look at the fish bite, I've got nothing of interest locally. Lucky me.
Personally, using various sites, such as Yahoo news, you can set it up for local feeds. RSS works too. I can also get my 15 articles free at work, 15 at home and 15 on my phone without even working on other spoofy methods. Shouldn't be too hard.
Personally, using various sites, such as Yahoo news, you can set it up for local feeds. RSS works too. I can also get my 15 articles free at work, 15 at home and 15 on my phone without even working on other spoofy methods. Shouldn't be too hard.
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Websites for radio stations also work pretty well for relevant local news... i.e. traffic, weather, crime, breaking news, etc. They also almost always have RSS.
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