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Wow, how many people want to pay $350/year for the Boston Globe? YOu can get an cell phone data plan for that much that gives you the entire internet. I can s
by marze 10y ago
Wow, how many people want to pay $350/year for the Boston Globe? YOu can get an cell phone data plan for that much that gives you the entire internet.
I can see why they are focusing on finding subscribers who think they are only paying a fraction of that.
- marstall 10y agoroughly 60,000 people who want to know what's going on around them in terms of local government, arts, sports, ordinary people, etc. The Globe is about 50 times better at these things than any other source.
- DeusExMachina 10y agoThe people that were paying that money to buy the paper version of the newspaper, for example. There are people that might find enough value in the journalism of the Boston Globe to want to spend that kind of money on it, compared to the "entire internet" that can be, broadly, not the most reliable source of information (wether the Boston Globe is a good newspaper I have no idea, but it might be for some people). That is a completely different discussion than looking at the deceptive tactics they use to make people that don't want to pay that amount to actually subscribe.
- ghc 10y agoI do, happily. I subscribe to the Economist too. In the scheme of things $350/year isn't much when you can spend that much in a weekend on gardening supplies. But the globe has also never charged my that much. They've been charging me roughly $200/year for the last 3 years for a digital subscription.