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Poll:Is the NYT Pay Wall Offer of 99 cents For Unlimited Access a Sign of Success or Desperation?
New York Times

Posted on 06/11/2012 12:27:15 PM PDT by lbryce

The New York Times Pay Wall has been hailed a success (mostly by subscription MSM.) I came across this offer of unlimited access to the New York Times for 99 cents (pictured below) and had to wonder if the Pay wall could possibly be considered a success at 99 cents for unlimited access.

Question:Is the offer of 99 cents for unlimited access a sign of success or of desperation?



TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyt
Don't make me laugh.
1 posted on 06/11/2012 12:27:25 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce
99¢ for how long? 99¢ for lifetime access might be OK. That amount for access to one day's paper? Nope.
2 posted on 06/11/2012 12:34:38 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: lbryce

4 weeks.


3 posted on 06/11/2012 12:35:27 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: lbryce; All

IN 1964, one of my fraternity brothers paid the then unheard of sum of $100 for a LIFETIME subscription to Playboy. He turned 65 a few months ago, still receives it every month, though they did ask him to send them proof that he was still alive. Needless to say, Playboy no longer offers “such a deal.”


4 posted on 06/11/2012 12:41:07 PM PDT by ken5050 (FRACK Obama!!!)
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To: lbryce

Toilet paper is cheaper and already comes wound on a roll


5 posted on 06/11/2012 12:41:41 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: lbryce

“....99¢ for lifetime access might be OK”

Still overpriced, IMHO.


6 posted on 06/11/2012 12:44:25 PM PDT by Huskrrrr ( the will)
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To: lbryce

It is just a trial to get you hooked. After four weeks, the regular price is $3.75 a week.


7 posted on 06/11/2012 12:55:52 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: lbryce

Sometimes its funny how things come back at them. I can remember many MSM quoting Gingrich out of context

20 Jul 1996 – “But we believe it’s going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it — voluntarily.”

We know he was talking about Medicare but now it applies to NY Times...... :-)


8 posted on 06/11/2012 12:59:20 PM PDT by QwertyKPH (I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything!)
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To: lbryce

If I paid 99¢ for the NY Slimes, I would expect a dollar back in change...


9 posted on 06/11/2012 1:09:57 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: WKUHilltopper

The WSJ made the jump to digital without a problem.

All the other papers are going to have issues, becuase of this fundamental rule of publishing:

Propaganda is supposed to be free. Nobody buys it, because it is supposed to be free.

Either they start providing a value-added service, or they are going away like every other un-fundamental liberal business model.


10 posted on 06/11/2012 1:18:58 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: lbryce

Just clear your cookies after 10 articles.


11 posted on 06/11/2012 1:23:41 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: lbryce

wait.... do they mean I pay them? or they pay me?


12 posted on 06/11/2012 1:40:07 PM PDT by Mr. K (I AM WRITING-IN PALIN/GINGRICH)
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To: ken5050
IN 1964, one of my fraternity brothers paid the then unheard of sum of $100 for a LIFETIME subscription to Playboy. He turned 65 a few months ago, still receives it every month, though they did ask him to send them proof that he was still alive. Needless to say, Playboy no longer offers “such a deal.”

In 1982 I spent $250 on a lifetime NRA membership. I know I got a better deal...

13 posted on 06/11/2012 2:50:09 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: lbryce

Ninety-nine cents? I can probably access old issues of Pravda for free.


14 posted on 06/11/2012 3:01:50 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: lbryce
I read some NYT piece on FR last week that dealt with an otherwise innocuous, non-political topic -- and the Time still had to slip in some gratuitous Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld bash.

Let 'em go to Hell.

15 posted on 06/11/2012 3:06:24 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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