Comments on: Chicago Sun-Times Papers Add Metered Paywalls — But Not For Roger Ebert

By: TheBrett

TheBrett — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:24:56 +0000

This sounds like a good idea on their part. Digital ad revenue is still worth a lot less to newspapers than print ad revenue, so the logical strategy is to try and maintain the latter as long as possible while not completely closing off the former. The Chicago Sun-Tribune's strategy handles that pretty well, since the "20 articles a month" means that you can still get a taste of their online content without rendering getting a subscription entirely pointless.

By: Funktron

Funktron — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:37:44 +0000

What they (and others… hint: NYT) should do is auction off their articles to sites who want the content. If they’re truly the de facto standard in quality news reporting, big money will be spent to attain their work.

By: joshuakarp

joshuakarp — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:25:16 +0000

I think they should have removed all of their content (short of summaries) from their web site and forced people to buy the print edition to get it. Online, they could have functionality that allowed people to interact around their content, and offer the ability to conduct transactions, i.e. buying, with group deals to give people discounts.