it depends what system the globe adopts. We won't know until next week.Originally Posted by Belguy
if they adopt the postMedia model which is presently spreading throughout the postmedia chain & will finally include the National Post itself, you'll be blocked from slipping in behind the wall through the back door. Perhaps this means the PM system recognizes IP addys.
on the other hand, trespassing in nyt-iht is easy via the back door.
Some very interesting comments here.
I'll accept that the 'news' industry is changing and may yet fade out as we now know it, but the bottom line is that you can't get quality content for free.
I think all big newspapers will go to a pay system which means that all the free volume content will be crap. Will this work? No idea. But either way, the people who aren't willing to pay for quality content won't get any.
Mike Holman
Money Smarts Blog Investing and Personal Finance
If switching to a paywall system means the globe will have proper long form journalism again then I accept it. All the syndicated and third party pollution they stuff into the pages now just drive more traffic/bots/ad revenue has gave them bad rep here and a world over.
Last edited by ddkay; 2012-10-16 at 08:51 PM.
Do you actually read the Globe? They have lots of articles by their own columnists. Rob Carrick? David Shoalts?, Eric Duhatshek? Sure they have syndicated stuff too, but so what? Read the good stuff and decide for yourself if it's worth $20. If not - you know what to do.
Mike Holman
Money Smarts Blog Investing and Personal Finance
I don't read the globe anymore unless I'm linked there. I just want to see more original content, just like when you sign onto the nytimes, you get a nice editorial written by them instead of reuters
If you are buying the weekend only 'physical' version of the newspaper, then this article says that you only need to pay an additional $4.99/month for unlimited access to the online version.
The Globe to roll out metered paywall as industry shifts to digital revenue
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The Saturday-only subscription is $15 a month, so you're paying around $3.50 per physical issue of the paper. That's a pretty darn expensive paper. And the $15 + $5 for online adds up to the same $20/month you'd pay for online-only.
That G&M article said the following:
readers who find stories through social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook as well as search engines and blogs won’t have those stories count against their monthly cap
So does this mean that all you have to do is find the article through Google and click on it?
Or link it through your Facebook and click on it?
That's it?
Harold, think about it for a sec. News happens. When we visit news sites it's because we want to see what happened. We read the list of articles and click on those of interest to us. Most of our news story views are arrived at this way, rather than us searching them out. ie. we need to know something happened to be able to search it out.
I do like to use globe investor but not enough for $20 a month.
Maybe when the entire web becomes locked down I will begin to pay but for the moment there are plenty of free alternatives.
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