http://paidcontent.org/2008/03/21/419-nyp-shuts-down-pagesix-standalone-site-after-less-than-four-months/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 02:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2008/03/21/419-nyp-shuts-down-pagesix-standalone-site-after-less-than-four-months/#comment-58774 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:47:35 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/03/21/419-nyp-shuts-down-pagesix-standalone-site-after-less-than-four-months/#comment-58774 Please, the online market is hardly tanking – with projects of 20%+ growth this year in ad revenue. The Post was just realizing that they get no traffic outside of Page Six and didn't want their newspaper site's traffic to plummet. These are the same geniuses who raised their cover price from 25 cents to 50 cents after much fanfare, only to drop it back to 25 cents after less than a month because sales plummeted. Not a very strategic organization.

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