Comments on: How Much Would You Pay to Read Newsday.com?

By: Maybe Newsday Made Their Paywall a Little Too Strong | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:16:32 +0000

[...] (CVC) announced plans to turn their paper’s Web site into a pay-to-play proposition, I dreamed up a way it could work: Maybe Long Island residents who wanted to peruse the paper’s classifieds would pay up. [...]

By: Mark Omega

Mark Omega — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:14:19 +0000

People will NOT pay for information. Information wants to be free and is. What they will pay for is games. Do you play Newsday? :)

By: 5Words for February 27th, 2009 | Technologizer

5Words for February 27th, 2009 | Technologizer — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:40:50 +0000

[...] Newsday’s site wants your money. [...]

By: Edward Barrera

Edward Barrera — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:57:06 +0000

You can not gut a newspaper, as the last couple of owners have done, and then ask readers to pay for it. It’s my hometown paper, and I barely read it.
Forget craigslist. This could allow online news sites, which don’t really have a hold on Long Island, to flourish.

By: Rodney Gagnon

Rodney Gagnon — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:38:15 +0000

Right, $0! However, I would pay for a more “personalized”, local information and connection utility as expressed by Newspaper Next, et al. We’ve started to experiment with such utilities at http://www.kayanta.com to hopefully help local news organizations deliver more value. Unfortunately, perhaps, the train is pulling out of the station.