Comments on: How newspapers can survive in the age of the Internet http://michelangelo.com/2009/11/how-newspapers-can-survive/ Thoughts on innovation in government, IT strategy, public policy & culture Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:35:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Neil Bonner http://michelangelo.com/2009/11/how-newspapers-can-survive/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Neil Bonner Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:19:41 +0000 http://michelangelo.com/?p=186#comment-166 Update to this post. My subscription expired during the first week of January 2010. However, the WSJ still delivered the newspaper to my home and continued my online access for an additional three months. Whenever they would call asking me to renew for $441/year, I would tell them that the cost is too high but I would like to negotiate with them for a mutually beneficial agreement. This would always take the caller off of their game and they would quickly return to their tele-script. I told them each time I would renew home delivery and online access for $200/year. They never took me up on my offer yet continued to delivery the newspaper even though I was no longer paying for a subscription. Finally, last Thursday or Friday they discontinued home delivery and stopped my online access to subscriber-only content (mind you 90 days after I stopped paying). On Saturday, their website offered me a "new subscriber" benefit of 54 weeks of home delivery and online access for $140. I signed up again for another year. And people wonder why the newspaper business is in such dire financial straights. Update to this post. My subscription expired during the first week of January 2010. However, the WSJ still delivered the newspaper to my home and continued my online access for an additional three months.

Whenever they would call asking me to renew for $441/year, I would tell them that the cost is too high but I would like to negotiate with them for a mutually beneficial agreement. This would always take the caller off of their game and they would quickly return to their tele-script. I told them each time I would renew home delivery and online access for $200/year. They never took me up on my offer yet continued to delivery the newspaper even though I was no longer paying for a subscription.

Finally, last Thursday or Friday they discontinued home delivery and stopped my online access to subscriber-only content (mind you 90 days after I stopped paying). On Saturday, their website offered me a “new subscriber” benefit of 54 weeks of home delivery and online access for $140. I signed up again for another year.

And people wonder why the newspaper business is in such dire financial straights.

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