03-01-2011, 03:32 AM | #1 |
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... iPad a bad deal for newspapers
Apple's slice makes the iPad a bad deal for newspapers
The Observer - 20 February 2011 "Compared with print, then, distributing and selling your iPad version of a £1 paper will cost only 3p or so less a copy – and you still won't know the names of those who are buying and reading you. Only Apple will be able to pluck fruit from that particular tree." |
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Newspapers are caught between a rock and a hard place.
As for me, I only read free content. |
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03-01-2011, 03:54 AM | #3 |
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Likewise. That's how I read this article, free-of-charge, downloaded via Calibre's Fetch news option, to the Periodicals section of my Sony PRS-650.
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03-01-2011, 04:04 AM | #4 |
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The internet is bad news for traditional content providers. If they can't adapt, they'll go the way of the dinosaurs.
I no longer read newspapers. I no longer read magazines. I no longer buy books. I no longer go to the library. I no longer watch TV news. I no longer buy CDs. I no longer buy DVDs. All Hail the Mighty Net |
03-01-2011, 04:48 AM | #5 |
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Well, Murdoch is busy writing the manual on how not to adapt... .
I read more - and higher quality - news and commentary now, totally for free, than I ever did when I used to pay daily for print newspapers. |
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I stream music, audio, and videos from free sources, so I no longer need to buy them; and since I'm now able to read public domain ebooks for free, I no longer need to buy hard copies. As to libraries, I see no need to physically visit them when they offer all the services I need online. So really, the net is a godsend and the total information tool. |
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I take advantage of many of the free options out there, but I also buy content.
I buy newspapers when we go out for Sunday brunch - passing different sections of various papers around the table is part of the ritual. I buy books, CDs, and DVDs because I want to support the creators. I can stream movies and tv on Netflix, but that's not the point. |
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Iguess I'm the dinosaur in the crowd. I don't read newspapers or magazines online; I subscribe to the print versions and look forward to reading my local paper and the New York Times daily with breakfast.
I have print subscriptions to numerous magazines (e.g., The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Economist, BusinessWeek, and at least another half-dozen more) and look forward to handling them and reading them daily. The one thing I absolutely do not want to do is spend more time than I already spend in front of a computer screen. I feel it is enough that I spend my workday in front of the computer without spending all my leisure time there, too. As for TV, I don't watch it. I much prefer to listen to an opera and read. |
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I'd subscribe to Nat Geo, but their subscription plans aren't equitable. For $15, I can get it for my netbook; but the same thing would cost me $24 for my Nook Color. Why???
So I refuse to subscribe. |
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[Because B&N want to take a portion of subscriber revenue for content sold to its device? Oh wait, only Apple is evil enough to want to do that ] |
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1) B&N's taking a cut of revenue for content sold through its infrastructure - not simply on its device. 2) B&N's not insisting that the content cost the same or less on its platform as it does elsewhere. |
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So the issue doesn't arise, as you aren't allowed the option of having the competing content provider. (And point 1 is also true of Apple, they have only ever said they want their 30% of in-app purchases. The argument has been around them forcing providers to offer the option of in-app purchasing alongside out-of-app purchasing.) |
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