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After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site
“The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000.”
Paywalls are a bad idea! The newspaper business is really blowing it on and offline.
Hybrid paywalls as used by WSJ and soon to be used by NYT next year may work but of course I don’t think Newsday’s content is as of high quality as of two icons (WSJ and NYT). Additionally, tablet based subscription (Kindle and many rumored ones) can also provide revenue stream for publishing industry. Next option may be to be friendly with search engines and make a reasonable deal with them.
In conclusion, publishing industry is in the verge of radical change and consolidation is inevitable.
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Hybrid paywalls as used by WSJ...be used by NYT next year may work but of course I don’t...
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This definitely doesn’t mean...idea. It means Newsday...a...
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