Paywalls. I’d love to be able to link to a lot more articles but those dang paywalls. I understand news is not produced for free and in our capitalist system, they should charge what the market can bear. The problem is that TMEW has already let me know what she is willing to let me bear in running this joint and therefore there’s no way I can afford to pay for all of the subscriptions I’d really need.
Sidenote: No, not the financial cost – the relationship cost. And after almost 33 years of marriage, it’s now priceless.
Anyways, I went to access the Union Leader for something and my nose hit the paywall message:
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Head scratch time. Printing press cost, paper costs, ink costs, run time expenses, transportation expenses, labor costs for the cost of the deadwood version AND the digital version: is CHEAPER than the digital only one? A cost premium of 21% for what should be the cheaper version? Now, I’m not in the newspaper industry, but then again, a whole of of newspaper industry member are now former ones which means I can’t be any worse than they were. But I do have to wonder about that perceived cost structure.
