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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust great. Our local newspaper is *ONLY* available online to subscribers.
No access to the Sheboygan Press for non-subscribers.
BTW, it's Gannett-owned.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)per calendar month if you aren't a subscriber. I used to check the LATimes site daily, but hey went subscriber, too. Of course he New York Times has some hybrid subscriber model, but I haven't bothered to read their rules.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Of course, they didn't count on Technology. Using Chrome, I just X out of the message that says "you need to be a subscriber to read this, click here" and that popup box goes away where I can read the article.
MineralMan
(146,336 posts)How's that newspaper doing financially? If it's like most, it's on the verge of going under. I subscribe to the paper version of my local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It's been shrinking steadily, and now, they've combined the front section with the local section 6 days a week. Ad sales are down, and they've cut their staff dramatically. I rarely go to their website, since I real the paper every morning and they don't update the website all that often between times.
It's a trend. If people don't subscribe to that online version, odds are it won't be around much longer in any useful form. In fact, the paper itself may fold up. That's why I subscribe. I'm hoping the paper doesn't go under, which could happen, despite its circulation of over 250,000.
It's a shame. The paper delivery person drops off my paper, but doesn't stop anywhere else on my block. A sad business.
Sienna86
(2,150 posts)I subscribe even though I can read the newspaper online. My newspaper does excellent investigative reporting, and I don't know who can do that in their absence.
MineralMan
(146,336 posts)their national news coverage, but I do want the local stuff. So, I subscribe, in part to keep the paper alive.
TouchOfGray
(82 posts)All of print media is in a death struggle to survive and are looking to find business models in order to do so.
I notice that you are a "star member", a donor, indicating that you are willing to pay for content that you deem important to you.
Perhaps if the Sheboygan Press is meaningful enough to your daily life it would be worth it to you to subscribe.
Island Blue
(5,819 posts)Newspapers are business, and even though they don't generate the majority of their revenue from subscriptions, the don't usually give their product away for free.
Lex
(34,108 posts)nt
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)What audacity.
Lex
(34,108 posts)?
msongs
(67,453 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)to online technology, which is now reader preference by and large, and new advertising models.
The Sheboygan Press does have an all-digital edition.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Like this guy....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5254659&mesg_id=5254853
If people didn't do that, then your idea would be more likely to work.
postulater
(5,075 posts)And also Gannett paper.
My mother is canceling her PC subscription so she can pay for the increase in her Medicare supplement premium.
And to top it off the premium increase is to the insurance company that my brother-in-law just got a huge bonus from. He's an exec attorney there.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)a kennedy
(29,716 posts)Wisconsin State Journal, La Crosse Tribune, Winona's paper. First you get like 15 articles for free a month, then you have to pay if you want anymore during the month. So I just pick my articles very carefully and not go over my 15 for the month.
Archae
(46,354 posts)The other 6 days a week, the Sheboygan Press isn't worth it, even as a birdcage liner.
Their "top commentator" is Cal Thomas, whihc gives you an idea of the political leanings of their editorial page.
The obituaries though are still available to non-subscribers.
boppers
(16,588 posts)Lots of reporters and journalists are starting their own online "presses", and cutting out idiocy like printing things on paper, paying for office space, and running huge physical distribution operations for their paper products.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I refuse to pay. I'll do without their pathetic "journalism" for now. I can always buy a paper copy if I really MUST read something.
They have PLENTY of advertising on the site, BTW, so it's not like they need readers' money.