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I like wsj but I only read maybe 1 article every other day. They need a more reasonable price point, especially since the market will almost bear no price at al

I like wsj but I only read maybe 1 article every other day. They need a more reasonable price point, especially since the market will almost bear no price at all. That being said I do enjoy their content, save for maybe the op-eds.

acomjean 11y ago
I'm surprised that most online papers won't sell you one day's worth online for a buck or so. Like buying a real newspaper. They all seem to want to sell subscriptions, which are perpetual and probably difficult to cancel..
- matt_wulfeck 11y ago
  Even a dollar a day. I can pay Netflix $10 a month and stream unlimited HD video, but wsj wants $30 to read the first few paragraphs of a few articles a day? The pricing here is much too aggressive
  - Nadya 11y ago
    Videos are more relevant to rewatch than articles are to reread. One needs to output more articles than videos, because articles must be "fresh" or you'll lose an audience. Nobody is printing 40 year old news - people are still watching 40 year old movies. Playing devil's advocate here. Pricing for many online goods is almost completely arbitrary and varies with little accord to service/product quality or even what that service provides. Another related example of arbitrary pricing: people will pay $2 for a soda from a vending machine but won't pay $1 for a useful app on their phone. There's something going on there... The sooner the $1 app's figure out what makes people buy $2 sodas is the day they become rich. And the sooner content providers figure out why people will pay $20/month to stream media (Let's say $10 to Netflix, $10 to Spotify or something) and charge people $20/mo for their articles... things will turn around for them.
    - majewsky 11y ago
      > Nobody is printing 40 year old news - people are still watching 40 year old movies. Because news operate at a different scale than movies. People are still reading 40-year-old books. A 40-year-old news article is not relevant anymore because it only fits within the momentary context in which it was created, whereas a non-fiction book or even an essay can span a broader context and thus stay as informative for future readers.
- germanier 11y ago
  You can buy single WSJ print or online articles for 29 cents on Blendle or today's whole paper for 3.20. I don't know if it's available in the US yet but they are at least planning to launch in the near future.

acomjean 11y ago

I'm surprised that most online papers won't sell you one day's worth online for a buck or so. Like buying a real newspaper. They all seem to want to sell subscriptions, which are perpetual and probably difficult to cancel..

matt_wulfeck 11y ago
Even a dollar a day. I can pay Netflix $10 a month and stream unlimited HD video, but wsj wants $30 to read the first few paragraphs of a few articles a day? The pricing here is much too aggressive
- Nadya 11y ago
  Videos are more relevant to rewatch than articles are to reread. One needs to output more articles than videos, because articles must be "fresh" or you'll lose an audience. Nobody is printing 40 year old news - people are still watching 40 year old movies. Playing devil's advocate here. Pricing for many online goods is almost completely arbitrary and varies with little accord to service/product quality or even what that service provides. Another related example of arbitrary pricing: people will pay $2 for a soda from a vending machine but won't pay $1 for a useful app on their phone. There's something going on there... The sooner the $1 app's figure out what makes people buy $2 sodas is the day they become rich. And the sooner content providers figure out why people will pay $20/month to stream media (Let's say $10 to Netflix, $10 to Spotify or something) and charge people $20/mo for their articles... things will turn around for them.
  - majewsky 11y ago
    > Nobody is printing 40 year old news - people are still watching 40 year old movies. Because news operate at a different scale than movies. People are still reading 40-year-old books. A 40-year-old news article is not relevant anymore because it only fits within the momentary context in which it was created, whereas a non-fiction book or even an essay can span a broader context and thus stay as informative for future readers.
germanier 11y ago
You can buy single WSJ print or online articles for 29 cents on Blendle or today's whole paper for 3.20. I don't know if it's available in the US yet but they are at least planning to launch in the near future.