Thread: NY Times Announces Digital Subscription Plan
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Old 03-21-2011, 02:57 PM   #37
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I agree with every word of this editorial.

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I will pay this price because I understand how expensive it is to produce the type of product the Times produces each day. I will pay it also because it's an incredible bargain. Spending roughly 50 cents per day (half of the cost of the cheapest hamburger at McDonald's) for access to every story the Times puts up reminds me of the miracle of mail service, which charges me just 44 cents to send a letter from Maine to San Diego or from Seattle to Miami. Yes, I know the Post Office sucks. But it's still a pricing miracle. And the Times' model is no less so today because I've haven't been asked to pay that price until now.
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I do not mind the fact that others apparently have already figured out ways in which to get the Times online product for free once the price-wall comes up. Who am I to judge their consciences?
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/...-online/72640/
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