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My main problem is with the fact that these publications (not necessarily New Yorker) charge me as much (or even more) as the printed version for the digital ve
by discardorama 12y ago
My main problem is with the fact that these publications (not necessarily New Yorker) charge me as much (or even more) as the printed version for the digital version, even though the costs associated with the digital version are significantly lower: no printing, no mailing, no delivery, etc.
Case in point: NY Times. Home delivery to where I live (SF, CA) for a week: $8.45
Full digital access: $8.75 (or $5.00 for Tablet. Or $3.75 for smartphone. Really??)
Make the all-digital version reasonable considering the savings in printing and distribution, and I'll buy. But right now their attitude is: only the rich people have tablets and smartphones anyways, so let's sock it to them.
Thanks, but no thanks.
- e40 12y agoThis a 1000x. I feel the same about kindle books that are the same price or higher than paperbacks.
- jahewson 12y agoOn the other hand the printed edition has no servers, no CDN, no developers, no sysadmins, no pay-per-click advertising pipeline, no app developers, no tech support, and no 30% to Apple for Newsstand. I'd like to see what the cost differences are, but it's pretty hard to speculate.