{"id":189927,"date":"2010-01-28T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/28\/on-paywalls-and-newspapers\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T02:21:00","slug":"on-paywalls-and-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/28\/on-paywalls-and-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"On Paywalls and Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday got bought out by the Dolan family, the folks who own Cable Vision, and they promptly put the website behind a subscription wall.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how many people are willing to buy a $5 a week subscription to the Long Island newspaper?<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/media\/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site\">after 3 months, they have 35 subscribers<\/a>, so I think that their newsroom outnumbers the web page subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the folks at the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> are in for a world of hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Their pay wall is a bit different, you get a few stories before having to pay, but what it will mean to folks like me is that I won&#8217;t link to them unless they have a big exclusive.  It&#8217;s just not worth it to me.<\/p>\n<p>As it currently stands, I do link to them frequently as a paper of record.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m sure that the loss of the eyeballs of my reader(s) does not mean much in the scheme of things, but when their OP\/EDs were behind a pay wall, they completely fell off the screen on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday got bought out by the Dolan family, the folks who own Cable Vision, and they promptly put the website behind a subscription wall. Do you know how many people are willing to buy a $5 a week subscription to the Long Island newspaper? Well, after 3 months, they have 35 subscribers, so I think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1129,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}