Posted on 01/07/2005 12:22:35 PM PST by Born Conservative
People used to pay for "Pet Rocks" so I guess they may as well try to see if people will pay for "Loose Marbles".BWHAHAAHAHAHA!
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Um, what was this thread about again?
They are pretty anti-anything that places America's domestic priorities first.
They're merely the flip-side of the NYT's globalization mantra.
In the crossfire debate of UN vs. WTO, Main Street USA comes in last.
Neither one of those rags is worth lining a birdcage with.
"But if they can't pay for it, then 'bloggers' won't be able to quote us anymore" spokesman for NYT /sarc
A 'sinister' plot?
Quality information? Sez who?
I do the same.
I seem to be suffering from information overload via truthful publications as it is. ;)
I might pay for a paper I really really liked if it had an online edition.
BUT, only if they offered it as PDF FORM.
If I am going to pay dough, I want to see how it looked in print.
And frankly, it is not hard to do. We do it all the time with my college's newspaper. We design the pages in Adobe Indesign and then click "export to PDF." It is not hard at all...any idiot can do it and it does not cost anything when it is part of the page design software anyway.
You got that right. What's that saying, "The people who read the NYT THINK they run the world. The people who read the WSJ DO run the world."
pdf papers. A good idea when I get broadband and a 52 inch high def monitor ...
I subscribed to the Washington Times National Weekly for years...I loved it..great source of conservative news and views. I didn't renew it in 1999, when their website was really rnin gwell..because I got everything there, and more besides, and instantly, and FREE..I wrote the publisher a letter thanking him, explaining why I wasn't renewing, and offerign to donate my subscription cost to the paper's in-house charity..got a nice reply back discussing the evolving busiess model..
The WSJ, and Barron's..are unique.both have like 95% of sales by annual subscription..delivered to home.office..the genius was to offer the website for a reduce cost to subscribers...both publications , over the years, have saved lots of money by moving much statistical pages to the website only..indeed..it's probably a waste of time for the WSJ to print ANY stock tables now..everyone has the stuff available on line..in many different formats..the big probalem for the WSK is that much of the revenue is derived from print advertising in the papers...that doesn't translate well into the website yet....people..."read" it differentl..you can't just browse over the whole page, like you do with the paper...OTOH..if you eliminated paper, and distribution, and printing costs completely..you'd save big $$$.. Barron's should be completely on-line..but they'd lose a fortune in print ad revenue....still..it's coming soon..
Come on NYT admit it. Michael Moore is reading your drivel free and you want him to pay.
Heh, heh. :) Good line.
Thanks for the ping. Happy New Year!
They couldn't get enough folks to pay for it. I quit buying the hard copy long ago.
You do need broadband.
If you can't stand the scrolling, you would need a massive monitor.
But, my 17-inch handles one page at a time just fine, but at 100 percent, I can't see part of the page. I still prefer it over reading some HTML posting though.
Charge the readers..... yeah that's the ticket.
Rush does it..... why can't we.
If I have to "sign in" I won't read it for FREE!
My experience leads me to prefer Mobi or MS Reader- whenever I opened PDFs on my palmtop the pages were either in scrolled windows or the type was too small to read, depending on whether I scaled it. Mobi and MS Reader automatically wrap, justify and page-number to the screen in use, which is why I use them for ebooks.
I'm really amazed that no newspapers or magazines are offering ebook versions- it's the only way to go when you commute a lot.
LOL, this should be really rich! FRANK RICH!, that is!
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