You Can’t Sell News by the Slice

Re:You Can’t Sell News by the Slice by sethg on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @12:15PM (#475489)

Journal readers have more disposable income than typical newspaper readers, and the WSJ is a valuable brand, so its subscribers are willing to pay extra (where "extra" means "more than zero") for the quality. There are other niche markets where this works: e.g., LWN.net is supported mostly by subscriptions.

But the history of mass media publications charging for content, as Kinsley describes, is a history of one failure after another.

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Re:You Can’t Sell News by the Slice by mattmaroon on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @02:47PM (#475782)

You don't think NYT is a valuable brand or his great reader demographics? I certainly wouldn't argue charging is right for every newspaper. At the risk of getting some Michael Dell-style egg on my face later, I'd say that most of them ought to just shut down now and give what little they can get via liquidation back to the investors.

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