The Morning News pay wall is hardly up and look who else is putting one in place for a March 28 launch.
Big Bob over at UnfairPark is right on two points:
The March 28 pay-wall arrangement is more user-friendly than the Dallas paper’s plan.
Pay walls are “the new reality.”
7 comments
My name says it all…
@ 3:35 pm on March 17, 2011
I tried to subscribe to online content like a good consumer but every time my smartphone or computer does a memory or spyware dump, I have to go through the whole process again.
Not worth it. I can aggregate the news I need for free. If you really want some free Belo, you can still go to wfaa.com
@ 4:30 pm on March 17, 2011
If I read more than 20 New York Times articles in a month, you will know the end of Times is near.
@ 5:45 pm on March 17, 2011
Comparing paying for the NYT to paying for the DMN is like ….well, there’s no comparison at all.
If the DMN offered to pay ME to read their newspaper, I might consider it.
I’ll gladly pay the all access fee for the NYT.
@ 8:22 pm on March 17, 2011
For a long time the DMN has been good for obits only. Why would anyone pay to read the DMN????
@ 12:04 am on March 18, 2011
The biggest difference between how the NY Times pay wall will work vs. the DMN cannot be overstated: People who arrive at the Times web site through links from search engines like Google or social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter will still be able to click through and read the “linked” Times story without hitting the pay wall. This is very important to someone like me who links to Times stories through my writing at Huffington Post…or to anyone who reads a story and then wants to click through to the relevant link.
I hope this becomes the standard.
@ 4:31 pm on March 18, 2011
Dudosa….spot on. How to take the nyt paysite and have it line a birdcage? Slanted drivel disguised as objective journalism…elitism defined.
@ 9:20 am on March 20, 2011
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7 comments
My name says it all…
I tried to subscribe to online content like a good consumer but every time my smartphone or computer does a memory or spyware dump, I have to go through the whole process again.
Not worth it. I can aggregate the news I need for free. If you really want some free Belo, you can still go to wfaa.com
If I read more than 20 New York Times articles in a month, you will know the end of Times is near.
Comparing paying for the NYT to paying for the DMN is like ….well, there’s no comparison at all.
If the DMN offered to pay ME to read their newspaper, I might consider it.
I’ll gladly pay the all access fee for the NYT.
For a long time the DMN has been good for obits only. Why would anyone pay to read the DMN????
The biggest difference between how the NY Times pay wall will work vs. the DMN cannot be overstated: People who arrive at the Times web site through links from search engines like Google or social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter will still be able to click through and read the “linked” Times story without hitting the pay wall. This is very important to someone like me who links to Times stories through my writing at Huffington Post…or to anyone who reads a story and then wants to click through to the relevant link.
I hope this becomes the standard.
Dudosa….spot on. How to take the nyt paysite and have it line a birdcage? Slanted drivel disguised as objective journalism…elitism defined.