[Husker] Journal-Star to start charging for website

[Aaron Wolfson]

It's not exactly that they're trying to drive people away from print, that
is something that is happening on its own. I do think having an extra
charge for print subscribers is overkill. I don't claim to know the
business reasons for it. Maybe they've determined that most of their print
subscribers don't use the site anyway.

The site is providing 10 free views per month. And as usual, you can paste
headlines and URLs into Google and access pages from there, and it will not
count against your limit. So I will personally continue to browse there and
provide links to the site on other media, but I will follow policy here.

Aaron


On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:12 PM, David Strong <gobigredlist at gmail.com>wrote:

> Same thing happening with the local paper here in Charlotte, the
> difference being that print subscribers get a digital subscription at no
> charge. I don't have a problem with digital newspaper subscriptions, most
> of these guys are losing money badly and cant afford to give away the
> online product anymore, but I probably wouldn't like having to pay for the
> same product twice. Maybe they are trying to actually drive people away
> from print. Probably cheaper to provide and deliver the digital content.
> The Charlotte paper also provides X number of free page views per month
> before requiring $$$.
>
> Dave
>
> On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:19 PM, nolan at tssi.com (Mike Nolan) wrote:
>
> > An article on journalstar.com says that effective today they will
> > start charging for access to their stories, even to print subscribers.
> >
> > Therefore, I will no longer post links to stories from their
> > website to this list, and I ask all Husker list subscribers to do the
> same.
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> > Mike Nolan, List Manager
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