Griffin, Kruger, OU all in good graces

[OUHoops]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/sportspost.aspx?/Griffin_Kruger_OU_all_in_good_graces/12-11115

 

[GymClassHero]

The Tulsa World is being stupid with that pay to read service.

I hope they fail and whoever thought it was a good idea, gets fired.

 

[MsProudSooner]

The Tulsa World is being stupid with that pay to read service.

I hope they fail and whoever thought it was a good idea, gets fired.

They tried it once before and then backed off of it. They need to figure out how to get their revenue from advertisers instead of alienating people who might want to read their online edition.

 

[skyvue]

Should they give away their print edition and up the rates for advertisers, too?

Web advertising's an entirely different model than print, and it tends not to be as lucrative. Newspapers are seriously struggling, and while I enthusiastically partake of all things digital, I want newspapers to survive, in print and online. I have no problem at all with newspapers charging for online access. The problem is, they should have been doing so all along. It's not easy to change people's thinking on the matter once they've gotten used to free access, but if you want newspapers as we know them to exist in ten years, you'll pony up.

I don't know how it works with the World, but the New York Times, which has recently started charging again, gives free online access to all subscribers to the print edition. That seems perfectly fair to me.

 

[Gutter]

Should they give away their print edition and up the rates for advertisers, too?

Web advertising's an entirely different model than print, and it tends not to be as lucrative. Newspapers are seriously struggling, and while I enthusiastically partake of all things digital, I want newspapers to survive, in print and online, I have no problem at all with newspapers charging for online access. The problem is, they should have been doing so all along. It's not easy to change people's thinking on the matter once they've gotten used to free access, but if you want newspapers as we know them to exist in ten years, you'll pony up.

I don't know how it works with the World, but the New York Times, which has recently started charging again, gives free online access to all subscribers to the print edition. That seems perfectly fair to me.

Amen.

 

[WTSooner]

Is it really pay to read? I can read, and I'm not a paying member, online, or for the print stuff. You sure you don't just need a log-in name or something?