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Originally Posted by Nate the great
The Kindle edition has 114 one star reviews (out of 225 reviews total). All the ones I checked complained about the price. I'd say price is pretty important.
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The hard part is weighing up whether those figures mean much though. I've noticed that a big percentage of on-line respondents to many things tend to be from people moaning about things. Either the satisfied ones just don't have the motivation to seek out somewhere to tell that to the world, or there are a class of people who don't get much success or attention in life and have embraced the Internet as a means of having their say. Possibly a bit of both.
Whether price matters seems to vary not just from person to person but also from situation to situation. For instance, I have a car that requires the premium grade of petrol and sucks it up with great enthusiasm when you put your foot down. But in the 7 years I've owned it I've never once checked how many miles per gallon it's supposed to do, or how many I actually get. When the tank gets low I fill it up and pay. I bought it for driving pleasure not economy runs.
Yet when I get to the supermarket I'll stand in front of things and mentally work out how much per 100 gms I'll pay between one brand and another. I suddenly become meticulously interested in price and value.
My guess is that it will be much the same with the WSJ. If you're in the market for that sort of publication you might well be more interested in whether it suits your convenience and preferred device than cheese-paring about the price.
The next couple of years will be interesting to watch - to see what actually does happen though.
