 Toronto Star next in line for Internet content paywall Canada's biggest-circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, is preparing to build a paywall for its website.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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hmmmmmm..
no thanks.
Don't care if the price was $0.01 a year, still wouldn't pay.
I would not read it if they offered to pay me.
Don't care if the price was $0.01 a year, still wouldn't pay.
I would not read it if they offered to pay me.
Likewise!
I would not read it if they offered to pay me.
Likewise!
Seems like a pretty capitalistic business model for a so-called "lefty" entity.
Martin thought Benito Mussollini was a lefty.
Actually I've only got one paper that I would really miss --- the National Post.
Edit:
The article says this...
... but I haven't noticed anything restrictive so far.
Seems like a pretty capitalistic business model for a so-called "lefty" entity.
Martin thought Benito Mussollini was a lefty.
That's the way he started. He was the editor of one of their rags too....then, he found nationalism while fighting against the Germans and the Austrians.. Sort of the same evolutionary process as the the PQ...except for the fighting the Germans part.
Seems like a pretty capitalistic business model for a so-called "lefty" entity.
Martin thought Benito Mussollini was a lefty.
That's the way he started. He was the editor of one of their rags too....then, he found nationalism while fighting against the Germans and the Austrians.. Sort of the same evolutionary process as the the PQ...except for the fighting the Germans part.
SHHHHHHH.. don't confuse Zippy with things like that.
He is too busy stalking my posts with very cheap and not very interesting shots.
I just deleted the Globe and Mail from my bookmarks. I guess the Star will be next. Too much free stuff on the net to pay for either newspaper. If they can't make money froms ads they will just go out of business. Their day is done.
These dinosaurs write the news but apparently haven't heard the news; it's the Information Age, for Christ's sake. It's a perfectly competitive market and the price of information has been set by the market at $0. The newspapers can continue to concoct desperate schemes to try and extract fees from consumers, but once the market has valued their product at $0, there's not a hell of a lot they can do about it. They need to find other ways to generate revenue if they want to stay in business because technology and the freemarket has stripped away any competitive advantage that existed before the internet.
Newspapers are in exactly the same boat as the recording industry. Their product, thanks to technology, no longer has market value and there's nothing they can do to get Jack back in the box.