Comments on: MediaNews Group Adds Paywalls To 23 More Newspapers http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/ The economics of digital content Sat, 25 May 2013 21:53:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Carter http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84936 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:49:38 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84936 I am from NM, and all the newspapers listed in NM are little pieces of junk.Even before this  pay as you go for internet, the content of their web newspapers were very limited, only select stories, and the stories on the web were edited for space.Let them do this, will backfire.

]]> By: Dan http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84935 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:45:52 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84935 It’s a little too early to claim success, I’d say.  Two of those three examples are financial publications where a different mindset is at work.  The third is a huge paper with a lot of old readers, and they just started with this.  Let’s check back in a couple years and see if the entire thing isn’t filed in the “dumb ideas” folder.

I’d also say that hammering your remaining print subscribers is a dumb idea in a dumb idea.

The problem with this whole strategy is it is based on squeezing your best customers.  Yes, they will put up with the most for a while, but where will the new customers come from?

]]> By: Kevin http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84934 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:13:21 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84934 Bravo to Joe. two times.

]]> By: Joe http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84933 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:41:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84933 They said the same paywalls wouldn’t work at the NY Times, Financial Times, Wall St. Journal and many smaller papers too Michael. Well guess what: they did.

]]> By: Joe http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84932 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:39:34 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84932 Just don’t read then Michael. Keep going to the lowest common denominator for your news of the world. You’ll be like the guy who says “I get all the food I need at McDonald’s”.

]]> By: Michael Rafferty http://paidcontent.org/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84931 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:25:54 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/08/15/419-medianews-group-adds-paywalls-to-23-more-newspapers/#comment-84931 label this in the “dumb ideas” folder

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