"Globe starts far-ranging paid website for all devices" by Casey Ross, Globe Staff / September 12, 2011
The Boston Globe today launches a new subscription-only website, BostonGlobe.com, betting that readers will be willing to pay for an online product that offers an innovative, inviting reading experience that is the only gateway to all of the Globe’s journalism.
Bad bet.
For the rest of September, BostonGlobe.com will be free, but after that readers will have to pay $3.99 a week for a digital-only subscription. Home delivery subscribers will not have to pay extra for the site but will need to register online to gain access....
Or you can save the $4 and not read shit.
Newspaper executives have long feared that charging for online content would lead to sharp drops in Web visitors and paper subscriptions. But so far readership has not dropped as much as expected at large outlets. At The Dallas Morning News, editors anticipated a 40 percent drop in Web traffic due to its pay wall, but the paper’s publisher said page views and visitation are down about 20 percent....
But that's considered a good thing to the self-destructive and self-deluded industry.
That's the model for success, huh?
The advent of the Globe’s pay model comes at a shaky economic time when consumers are cutting discretionary spending.
And the I just found $13.
But Baron said consumers have displayed a willingness to pay for previously free information that they value, such as paying for iPhone and iPad apps, and previously for cable channels when broadcast TV had long been free....
They re trying to compare their PoS dinosaur of an agenda-pushing shit sheet to pay cable?
I can do without the Globe, thanks.
Like all media outlets, the Globe has struggled financially in recent years due to its shrinking print audience and advertising revenue, combined with increasing prices of newsprint and a slow economy.
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In it's death throes now.
In 2009, the Globe’s parent, the Times Co., threatened to shutter the Globe unless it extracted $20 million in cost savings from its unions.
And then the Times MADE a PROFIT!!
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The Globe’s finances have since improved significantly as a result of the deep union concessions, a major increase in the price of a Globe subscription, consolidation of printing facilities, and improvement in the national and regional economies....
Yeah, sure they have.
See: Globe No Longer Mainstream Media
A loss of $120 MILLION for the QUARTER is a SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT?
Hey, cap'n, less water coming into the boat now so the Titanic should be good to go! Full steam ahead!
Also see: Globe Employees Applaud a Rapist
That's why I no longer have respect for the Globe or its employees.
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Related: Would You Pay Twice For a Turd?
I'm already ashamed to have paid once -- but never again.
Also see: Globe, Herald circulation continues to slide
That's going to continue to happen no matter what they do on the web.
That's what happens when you sell nothing but shit-slop, agenda-pushing garbage.
