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I bought myself the NYT Sunday edition in print for 2017. If they could fix their subscription model I would have kept it, but after a year it doubled in price

I bought myself the NYT Sunday edition in print for 2017. If they could fix their subscription model I would have kept it, but after a year it doubled in price and customer support gave me flashbacks of trying to deal with AOL. I started reading the news in print because it was less stressful and I needed to train myself not to open the news each time I fired up a browser. The online papers put the opinion and doomsday headlines all over the place and I just needed to read a refined source of news that had time to be digested before it was published. The Washington Post has been a surprisingly good source of news over the last year as well. I prefer it over the NYT at this point and wish I could get it in print where I live. Aside from the many far leaning online sources, my general rule of thumb is just to avoid anything that is linked to TV. When CNN figures out how to rewind to 1990, I might change my mind. But print allowed me to take a moment and digest the news. Online was almost always in a state of panic, especially over the last year.

twothamendment 9y ago
I loved AOL support! Every time I tried to cancel they would give me 1, 2 or 3 months more for free. As for pricing, my local paper charges more for a digital subscription that to deliver a paper to my house. Subscription models are messed up.
- reaperducer 9y ago
  >As for pricing, my local paper charges more for a digital subscription that to deliver a paper to my house. Subscription models are messed up. It's because print advertising is still more effective than digital. We've been hearing for more than a decade that this will change any day now, but it hasn't happened yet. And the more people use ad blockers, the longer it will remain true.
flomo 9y ago
I signed up for a NY Times Sunday subscription because at the time it was roughly the same price as the full-access digital subscription, but the price has gone up over time. However, I find the print edition is a much better experience than the digital platforms. Mostly because I can simply ignore the mostly awful editorial section or things that are buried in eg Style, whereas on the site and app those pieces are mixed-in with the news, giving the appearance of bias. Also, there are often pieces which appear on page A6 of the newspaper which are buried on the website, so you get a very different view of the news with the actual paper.

twothamendment 9y ago

I loved AOL support! Every time I tried to cancel they would give me 1, 2 or 3 months more for free. As for pricing, my local paper charges more for a digital subscription that to deliver a paper to my house. Subscription models are messed up.

reaperducer 9y ago
>As for pricing, my local paper charges more for a digital subscription that to deliver a paper to my house. Subscription models are messed up. It's because print advertising is still more effective than digital. We've been hearing for more than a decade that this will change any day now, but it hasn't happened yet. And the more people use ad blockers, the longer it will remain true.

flomo 9y ago

I signed up for a NY Times Sunday subscription because at the time it was roughly the same price as the full-access digital subscription, but the price has gone up over time. However, I find the print edition is a much better experience than the digital platforms. Mostly because I can simply ignore the mostly awful editorial section or things that are buried in eg Style, whereas on the site and app those pieces are mixed-in with the news, giving the appearance of bias. Also, there are often pieces which appear on page A6 of the newspaper which are buried on the website, so you get a very different view of the news with the actual paper.