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	<title>Comments on: Newspapers: A message from users in 68-foot tall flaming numbers</title>
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		<title>By: Terence Eden</title>
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		<dc:creator>Terence Eden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I paid for news online recently.  £28 for 16 months access to &lt;a href="http://www.private-eye.co.uk/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Private Eye&lt;/a&gt;.

Note, I *paid* online - but they're going to deliver to me in dead tree format.

I am willing to pay for access for high-quality news and entertainment - which I don't get from most media outlets.

Although I'd love to see Private Eye have a decent website, perversely, I'd be less inclined to pay for it.  The joy of the web is sharing content - whether it's a link to a story or a video on YouTube.  Once you put a paywall there, it kills sharing.

I can see a version of Slashdot's subscriber system working for a magazine like Private Eye.  Subscribers get to see, say, a week in to the future.  Add in features like only letting paid subscribers comment etc and it *could* work.

Would emailing me a PDF every fortnight be cheaper than running a printing press?  Although the information contained within is the same, is it as valuable to me?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I paid for news online recently.  £28 for 16 months access to <a href="http://www.private-eye.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Private Eye</a>.</p>
<p>Note, I *paid* online - but they&#8217;re going to deliver to me in dead tree format.</p>
<p>I am willing to pay for access for high-quality news and entertainment - which I don&#8217;t get from most media outlets.</p>
<p>Although I&#8217;d love to see Private Eye have a decent website, perversely, I&#8217;d be less inclined to pay for it.  The joy of the web is sharing content - whether it&#8217;s a link to a story or a video on YouTube.  Once you put a paywall there, it kills sharing.</p>
<p>I can see a version of Slashdot&#8217;s subscriber system working for a magazine like Private Eye.  Subscribers get to see, say, a week in to the future.  Add in features like only letting paid subscribers comment etc and it *could* work.</p>
<p>Would emailing me a PDF every fortnight be cheaper than running a printing press?  Although the information contained within is the same, is it as valuable to me?</p>
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