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> For $9.99 I month I cant access to a library of thousands of hours of videos (netflix, prime, discovery+, etc) , thousands of hours of music (spofity, prime m

> For $9.99 I month I cant access to a library of thousands of hours of videos (netflix, prime, discovery+, etc) , thousands of hours of music (spofity, prime music, etc) , or thousands of hours of PC Games (Xbox Game Pass) Do you think it'd be worth it if you had archival access to the paper? It'd be interesting to be able to read NYT from its inception in 1851, for example. I know there are some papers that have done digital archiving, but I wonder if a research pass would be a way to generate revenue, too...

faeyanpiraat 5y ago
It’s like walmart throwing some expired food after you for free. It could be good for some use cases, but not for the primary one which is getting fresh food for consumption.
- memling 5y ago
  hence the research pass. I could actually see that as valuable for a subset of people if it were searchable. I find the historical value of news generally higher than the current value but of course that's not why people read the paper. I might be inclined to subscribe to the times if I could read contemporaneous perspectives of historical periods I'm interested in. as it is, I sometimes feel like Chesterton, who snarkily opined he would be impressed if the news could get the past right, to say nothing of their guesses about the future. even so I think there's a need for deeply reported careful work...and that takes money. archives might work. I also like the git diff idea in a sibling comment.
syshum 5y ago
It could be, Only if it was a full, complete, uncensored, unedited archive. Which is highly unlikely. Another valuable feature would be to have access to a git style record of all edits... which no newspaper would ever do either
tomjen3 5y ago
It might be interesting to read the newspapers for september 10 2001 or read the stories for the days before a big event, but other than that? It has very little value.

faeyanpiraat 5y ago

It’s like walmart throwing some expired food after you for free. It could be good for some use cases, but not for the primary one which is getting fresh food for consumption.

memling 5y ago
hence the research pass. I could actually see that as valuable for a subset of people if it were searchable. I find the historical value of news generally higher than the current value but of course that's not why people read the paper. I might be inclined to subscribe to the times if I could read contemporaneous perspectives of historical periods I'm interested in. as it is, I sometimes feel like Chesterton, who snarkily opined he would be impressed if the news could get the past right, to say nothing of their guesses about the future. even so I think there's a need for deeply reported careful work...and that takes money. archives might work. I also like the git diff idea in a sibling comment.

syshum 5y ago

It could be, Only if it was a full, complete, uncensored, unedited archive. Which is highly unlikely. Another valuable feature would be to have access to a git style record of all edits... which no newspaper would ever do either

tomjen3 5y ago

It might be interesting to read the newspapers for september 10 2001 or read the stories for the days before a big event, but other than that? It has very little value.