Newsweek: This News Doesn’t Want to Be Free
Sunday, 6 September 2009, 13:16 via Delicious/martinstabe
"after the [Newport Daily News] Web site put up a pay wall for nearly all its content, readers would brave driving rainstorms to go out and buy the newspaper. Since then, newsstand sales of the Newport Daily News have jumped by 200 copies a day. For a paper with a daily circulation of 13,000, that's a significant gain" Read More...
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1. OlafOlson2 | 6 September 2009 at 2204
Since when is 200 papers out of a circulation of 13,000 “significant”?
That’s, like, 1.5 percent, give or take. And THAT is worth smothering the development of your long-term delivery strategy? Really?
Man, no wonder newspapers are going under.
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