Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On the topic of paid for access: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/how-to-make-readers-pay-happily/?8ty&emc=ty Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Financial Times charges for access to its web edition. I read somewhere > that NYT is planning to do that as well, as are Murdoch's papers. I would > not pay for the latter, but I would pay for the NYT or another quality > newspaper if that was the only way to access it on the web. I hope that > there are enough people like me, combined with revenue from online > advertising, to replace the print sales and enable the papers to survive. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Adam Bridge wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Brian Reid <reid at >> mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: >> >>> I'm probably going to buy one to see what it's like to read a newspaper >>> on >>> one. I'm sure I'll find some use for it around the house if it turns out >>> not >>> to mix well with an armchair and a mug of strong black New Guinea >>> Highlands >>> coffee. I already have enough computers. >>> >> >> I think it's less a computer, as you and I have known them, as it is a >> player for media, for games, for utilities, but not for the >> wide-spectrum of tasks that our laptops or desktops are. >> >> Not that the power isn't there - by the standard of say 5 years ago >> this is a fast machine - but that it's focused. >> >> I'm desperately hoping that it will help the newspapers find working >> model that keeps them afloat. The blog sites just don't have the >> journalist background that print media has. >> >> There's no such thing as a free lunch. Right now a whole generation >> feels that news should be free, or paid for by ads. I think this is a >> broken way to think but I'm a voice in the wind. >> >> Adam >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >