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Originally Posted by manfred63
The problem is that most people already pay some digital subscriptions. Music 10 bucks, movies 10 bucks, and then a single newspaper wants 10 bucks per month. That's a bit much just for digital content. And you pay for the internet you're using right now, too.
As an Internet Service Provider I'd buy such subscriptions and offer them free to my customers. Maybe we'll see WP content free for Kindle users sooner or later, and other people would pay 10 bucks per month. I don't think that paywalls work for newspapers. It doesn't work if you get 24/7 TV entertainment for almost the same price.
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When I was a kid, I delivered the morning paper for 50 cents a week. (7 days)
Rain, snow or shine, those papers were delivered with uncanny accuracy to a designated place on a porch or second story balcony. I hated the few who wanted it inside the screen door which slowed me down.
My ability to loft a large "special" Sunday paper up on the balcony over the flower pots was especially impressive. (I never used a rubber band, or any of these newfangled plastic sleeves in current vogue.)
These days I get no newspaper, and only on occasion a specially cheap magazine subscription. ($5 or 10 for a year)
Times change.