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Originally Posted by Harmon
The question is, why not? I mean, we are willing to buy a newspaper at a dollar a day, so why not a webpaper?
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The number of people willing to pay for a physical newspaper is plunging all the time. Most paper newspapers are in a death spiral. The last time I subscribed to a physical paper (maybe around 8 years ago) the cover-price was 50 cent M-F, $1.50 S, or I think around $3.50 a week for a subscription. No way I'd have been willing to pay $1.00 a day. I marvel at how much my local newspapers have shrunk since then in the rare instance that I encounter a copy-- the bigger paper is maybe 1/3 the number of pages, while the smaller one has shifted to tabloid size and is even less content. But the prices stay the same, even though now I wouldn't rate them as worth even 25 cents a day.