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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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I wouldn't be surprised to find that the one-starrers are the folk who believe that everything should be free because they want it to be free. I wonder how many of them actually subscribe to the WSJ.
Whenever I see a review that focuses on price only, I ignore it and I suspect a lot of people ignore those reviews. Out of the billions of people in this world, fewer than 2 million read the WSJ. It is safe to assume that the WSJ doesn't meet the wants or needs of the remaining billions, but that doesn't make it an overpriced newspaper.
I have a neighbor who thinks that if the
New York Post doesn't report it or Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck doesn't say it, it isn't fact, it didn't happen, etc. And the neighbor is happy to pay the subscription fee for the
NY Post. Me, OTOH, think the
Post (as well as Beck and Limbaugh) isn't even worth free, but I wouldn't one-star it for being overpriced.