Newsday's Pay Wall Experiment Yields Disappointing Results
No matter how you try to sugarcoat it, trying to make people pay for online news content isn’t easy. And Long Island daily Newsday — already dealing with its fair share of negotiation problems between owner Cablevision and its staff — may now have to come to terms with the fact that its decision to put a $5 a week/$260 a year price tag on its site was a bad move.
According to John Koblin in The New York Observer, only 35 people have subscribed to pay for the site.
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