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____/ JEDIDIAH on Friday 29 Jan 2010 20:54 : \____
> On 2010-01-29, JeffM <jeffm_@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>After Three Months, Newsday's Grand Paywall Experiment
>>>Has 35 Paying Customers. Yes, 35.
>>>
>> The coverage at Slashdot noted what a niche market this is.
>
> ...that still has a non-trivial potential subscriber market.
>
> ...that still saw a decline in readership after the paywall went up.
>
>>
>> The publication is targeted at residents of Long Island.
>>
>> The publication is owned by Cablevision,
>> the primary ISP on Long Island.
>> If you subscribe to the Cablevision ISP,
>> you get free access to the online version.
>>
>> It was also noted that the dead-tree version costs $4.50
>> and if you get that, you get free access to the online version.
>
> All this does is point to the idea that they should not have bothered
> with the paywall idea in the first place. They already extract cable
> fees out of 75% of their potential subscribers. The logical thing for
> them to have done was NOTHING.
>
> They should have SAVED money off of this deal rather than pouring a lot
> of extra money into it.
They believe that just because they try something different it might work.
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