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We pay about $75/yr. for LA Times daily delivery (gotta get those fry's ads...) which includes full digital access and a daily email reminder/headline preview, and then share as needed w/ other friends and family that subscribe to other digital content where they live.
It's kinda sad, all the grappling for customers, but we need good journalism. I'm not sure what the optimum pricing model would be, but something like an additional 25-35% on top of your local newspaper's fee, ought to get an "all access" pass to all other domestic media... they could track who reads what media outlet by the logins. The Hartford Courant could see how many NY Times or Washington Post subscribers were reading which articles, and the Dallas Morning News could see how followers were from the Denver Post or Orlando Sentinel. Everyone wins.
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I think the terms are surprisingly reasonable.
This is not like the Newsday paywall that keeps everyone out.
It lets casual browsers hit the site quite often. Twenty articles is a fair number and you'd still be able to access content from links on Google and blogs and such.
The phone and tablet apps already required subscriptions.
The only people this seems likely to impact significantly are those who hit the site almost every day and go well past the headlines. And yeah, $15 bucks a month seems excessive for access to a web site that doesn't deliver loads of free porn. But how often are you gonna have to eat at that trough before coughing up the dough?
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from reading the above comments:
we all want "good journalism"
we all want "investigative reporting"
we all want more than repackaged ap/upi/reuters stories.
yet somehow, we all let the republicans de-fund public broadcasting!
whether u agree or not with them on specific topics, i imagine most think cpb does all of the above.
ymmv
be well
rob
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robfilms wrote:
from reading the above comments:
we all want "good journalism"
we all want "investigative reporting"
we all want more than repackaged ap/upi/reuters stories.
yet somehow, we all let the republicans de-fund public broadcasting!
whether u agree or not with them on specific topics, i imagine most think cpb does all of the above.
ymmv
be well
rob
Are you REALLY opining that the CPB/NPR are unbiased?
Seriously?
NO tax dollars should support ANYONES broadcast endeavor, because NO broadcast endeavor does not carry with it the owners, operators, and broadcasters biases...
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I think they waited too long to come up with a sustainable model. It's arrogant to presume that "good journalism" can only be rendered via ancient, traditional channels (which they continue to be). I know that the only sustainable models that matter to these people are the ones that continue to support them keeping a Benz in the garage. Keeping their lifestyles intact. If they fail, then I guess it's back to the dark ages. I miss newspapers. I subscribe to the SF Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune and was raised on the L.A. Times. It still feels good to open up a real paper. It's nicer than the most clever digital recreation on any platform. But they've squeezed most of the juice out of it. It's funny how Buzz mentions the multi-page Fry's ads. That's my favorite part.
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I did reverse of v63, raised on the SF Chronicle and Oakland Tribune, and actually had a couple of Oakland Tribune paper routes as a kid in the early 1960's (before heading south, and to the LA Times, at the end of the decade). When JFK was shot, and the news played over the school PA system, it was a shock, but delivering the Oakland Tribune afterwards is what made it really sink in and hit home. Most of Mrs. Buzz's family works, or has worked in the newspaper business, so it's close to home for us. The OC Register has the best Fry's ads BTW. Journalism needs to survive and thrive, but figuring out to make that happen isn't easy in the fast paced, technology advancing era that has come into play over the last 15-20 years. We need to learn how to better adapt to to this type of change.
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If they would have charged $10 a year for the iPhone app, that would have been reasonable.
As is, way too pricey. Me thinks, when only the intelligentsia bites, they'll come out with a more reasonable model.
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> But how often are you gonna have to eat at that trough before coughing up the dough?
ENOUGH! Don't laugh, you rough tough. Stop sloughing, take a bough, and get yourself out of that trough.
