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

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."

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  1. Like everything else related to their God, money. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Jews will.

    Why oh why could the holocaust crocodile tear fairy tale not be real? For that matter why do so many retarded chimpanzees mistaken for humans so graciously provide their tongue for their Jew masters to use as toilet paper? Must be house niggeritis or maybe just too stupid to realize they are slaves with chains of debt while fooled into fervent worship of pieces of paper with money or just simple numbers in a databse.

    Fools.

  2. Re:Watch that price, NYT by Darth+Sdlavrot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's = "it is"; its = possessive. E.g., it's flapping its wings.

    I can appreciate that when we wrote with feather quills, bottles of ink, and blotting paper -- a rather laborious process -- any reason for putting less ink on the page was a good one.

    You might hear yourself saying "they're", "it's", and "we're" when you are saying "they are","it is", and "we are"; but spoken language != written language.

    We are well beyond the need to save ink. When you write, just write "they are", "it is", and "we are" and save the apostrophes for things like "it is Bill's cat." Especially if you can't ever seem to get it right.

    Yes, it's off topic. No, it's not a flame. Just a non sequitur response prompted by his sig. Mod me down if you must.

  3. Re:Watch that price, NYT by InsaneProcessor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Considireing the crap in the NYT (Yes, I have read other peoples copy), why would you pay anything for it? I would much rather read and watch Glenn Beck, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Olberman, and so on (although Glenn is a little extremist, he is entertaining if you understand what is really going on). Anyone not paying attention deserves what this government will be doing to them.

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    Athiesm is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.