Yeah, $15/month isn't really very much, BUT it's hard to get away from the internet=free mentality.
I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2011 8:08:49 am PDT #28826 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2011 8:09:44 am PDT #28827 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
BUT it's hard to get away from the internet=free mentality.
This is the thing. The writers do the same amount of work to put a story online as they do on paper.
-t - Mar 17, 2011 8:11:50 am PDT #28828 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I get over 3 months of my local paper for $15, so that does seem like a lot.
DavidS - Mar 17, 2011 8:13:23 am PDT #28829 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Can we buy one subscription as Buffistas and everybody logs in? Probably not, huh?
flea - Mar 17, 2011 8:13:59 am PDT #28830 of 30001
information libertarian
For me at this point, a print newspaper is useless. I have no time at home to read it, it's too big and the cats sit on it if I read it on the floor, and I've read the Times online for so long I am deeply disconcerted by the arrangement of the print. (My mother is visiting and is buying the Times daily and it's so weird.)
But I'm cheap. I don't spend $5 on coffee a day - I maybe buy a coffee out once a month. I bring my lunch. I pay $30 a month for the cheapest TV service I could get, and would pay nothing if there were over-the-air reception of PBS in my town. I'm actually thinking of cancelling TV, but it would be a big fight with my kids. Well, and my husband, probably.
-t - Mar 17, 2011 8:19:45 am PDT #28831 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Admittedly, I have never been one for reading the newspaper. I get the Sunday paper delivered now so I can skim through it, maybe, but mostly so I have something to wrap worm food in, and to use as kindling.
hippocampus - Mar 17, 2011 8:23:37 am PDT #28832 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Jessica has a point - that the writers' effort is what we're subscribing to. This is a conversation that carries well beyond newspapers.
I rail at advertisements in products I pay for though. That's one thing that really peeved me about cable, which was originally something you paid for in order to get ad-free television. Until it wasn't.
I don't want ads in my books. I hate being trapped with them at the start of movies. I wish them nowhere near my apps (eyah, good luck).
If we're paying for the articles, in this model, we're also paying for a lot of advertisements, and we are getting those in spades (aggressive ones, too).
Jessica - Mar 17, 2011 8:24:09 am PDT #28833 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Local delivery of the NYT costs $5.85/week, or about $25/month. Outside of the NYC metro area, the print edition is $7.40/week or about $35/month. So $15/month for the same content anywhere in the country (more content, really, since the online version is updated throughout the day and includes video & interactive features) seems like a pretty good deal to me. DH is pretty addicted to the dead tree edition or I'd switch today.
flea - Mar 17, 2011 8:27:47 am PDT #28834 of 30001
information libertarian
$15 a month is a good deal compared to $35 a month, but a bad deal compared to $0 a month. It's all relative.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2011 8:28:09 am PDT #28835 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If we're paying for the articles, in this model, we're also paying for a lot of advertisements, and we are getting those in spades (aggressive ones, too).
The ads are the only thing that makes it possible for a newspaper to offer a reasonable subscription price in any format. Take out the ads and the subscription price just about triples.