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| Subject: Newsday puts its web site behind a pay wall for $5 a week. After three months, they have a grand total of 35 paying customers Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:38 am | |
| In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect?
So, three months later, how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, or $260 a year, to get unfettered access to newsday.com?
The answer: 35 people. As in fewer than three dozen. As in a decent-sized elementary-school class.
http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site |
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