Yeah but it's also crazy how many pubs (the word is nice ;)) already had to close or at least merge which others. Google News made it quite obvious how redundan

Yeah but it's also crazy how many pubs (the word is nice ;)) already had to close or at least merge which others. Google News made it quite obvious how redundant a lot of content is. Often articles are just exact copies of Reuters, AP, ... texts. If subscription is the only solution, I expect more pubs to disappear. Being from Germany, if I had to subscribe to nytimes.com to read articles from there I'd stop reading them probably. Just pretending I would subscribe, I would also have to subscribe to 5 more US Newspapers, 2-3 UK ones and 10-15 German ones. NYT Basic is 1.75 € a week, Washington post 10 $ a month. That would be more than 140 € a month. No way :-) (Oh, I forgot all the commercial tech pubs I read) I hope the publishers come up with a better model.