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Originally Posted by Chaos
So, how much would you be willing to pay for reading the news online? And I wonder if this will include the mobile version, which currently doesn't even require registration (which is nice if you want to avoid that registration  )? |
Hello,
strangely enough three other articles -one from cnet, one from the french daily Libération, one from Le Monde- spoke about the same subject (the end of the print on paper press, the rise of free newspapers, the rise in reading news online) in rather different tones
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http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,...-401551,0.html
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http://news.com.com/Can+papers+end+t...3-5614350.html
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http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=282248
As for me (if you ask
), I think people -more and more of them- are now ready to pay for content on the internet - both music and news-.
I pay for such things as Live365 because they offer a quality service I don't find -free- anywhere else.
I've subscribed to Salon (even though I was able to read them for free) because once again I think the'yre worth it.
I'm a subscriber of Le Monde electronic edition wich offers both the pdf and html print edition, and "free" access to the archives.
It's a 5€/month subscription.
I would be ready to subscribe the same way to the NYT for the same services for a similar low price.
(or for Slate)
Sometimes I don't mind the ads -in AvantGo for instance- sometimes I'm ready to pay a small fee to get good content without ads, and additional services....