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Who Will Control the Cost of the NYT On Digital Readers?

Posted by timothy on from the hand-of-fate dept.

RobotRunAmok writes "Ryan Tate, at Gawker, describes the 'heated turf war' waging at the New York Times. The print and digital divisions have differing views over how much a subscription to the Gray Lady (iPad edition) should cost. The print troops believe $20-$30 monthly is the proper price point (fearing that setting the mark any lower will jeopardize print distribution), while the digital soldiers are digging in their heels at $10 a month. The Kindle version is already managed by the Print Army, so don't count on logic necessarily driving any decisions here. It's complicated: the Web version of the paper is still free through 2011, and the computer 'Times Reader' has already been released and priced at $14.95 monthly."

6 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Economics 102 by Albanach · · Score: 3, Funny

    The consumer ultimately determines the value of any item sold.

    Sure they will, because corporations would never engage in anti-competitive actions to the detriment of the consumer.

  2. Re:Watch that price, NYT by swilver · · Score: 1, Funny

    I must have missed what is wrong with that sig. Oh.. and offtopic.

  3. Re:Watch that price, NYT by rugatero · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you truly want anything decent, I'd rely the education of others.

    And you can always rely on Muphry's law.

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  4. A billion dollars! by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why not just charge a billion dollars? That way, they'd only need to sell one...

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  5. Re:OT: a la carte pricing by ickleberry · · Score: 2, Funny

    mythbusters for example, I simply retrieve it from a friends house where I set them up a mythtv box

    Well that would work fine for an episode of mythbusters but that does that mean I have to pull an episode of Top Gear out of an actual gear box?

  6. tl/dr AMIRITE? by weston · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, but print is dying.

    Sure, but mid- and long-form don't have to.

    In this twitterific RSS-enabled environment feeding an entire generation of instant-gratification kids (uh, talking about 12 - 24 year-olds), who also seem to be "suffering" from ADD/ADHD, just how long do you think the type of reader profile YOU speak of is going to be around?

    I don't know the exact length, but I'm pretty sure it's only few decades short of the end of society as we know it.

    I'd explain, but that's probably a tl/dr.

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