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by reaperducer 2508 days ago
That's $200 a year for a newspaper I read about once a week

Seems reasonable to me. Important journalism isn't free. If you want free trash, Buzzfeed is your friend.

that doesn't even get me their cooking section.

Lucky you! From that same link someone else posted above you can subscribe to the cooking section for $40 for a whole year ($3/month). And then you don't have to have the newspaper that you're not going to read anyway!

But go ahead and move the goalposts again. We'll wait.
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Dylan16807 2508 days ago
$4 per article for a paper that's $2.50 on newsstands is not a reasonable price.

> But go ahead and move the goalposts again. We'll wait.

Stop that. The original goalpost clearly says $25-50.

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justinc8687 2508 days ago
Minor nitpick, the Sunday NYTimes is $5 in NY or $6 elsewhere. Mon - Sat are indeed $2.50.
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vntok 2508 days ago
I'm confused, where did you get the impression that he only wants to read the cooking section and nothing from the regular newspaper?

Or do you want him to pay $200 for the general contents + $40 a year for recipes? Is it the same kind of deal for getting business breaking news or yoga tutorials? That seems crazy to me.

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bubblethink 2508 days ago
It's a reasonable request that I concur with. This sort of piecemeal subscription model is really annoying. The main reason all other streaming services took off was because people didn't want piecemeal cable bundles. Once you pay for a subscription, you should get everything under that banner. No more paywalls. That's a reasonable expectation when seen in the context of other streaming services. Second, if you are pretending to be a tech company offering soft services on the internet, act like one. nytimes is the slowest and most bloated ad/tracking infested site that I visit. It brings firefox mobile to a crawl. This may be one of the reasons why a middleman like apple news may actually work, simply by reducing the friction. If you can make nytimes.com behave like lwn.net, I would pay.
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literallycancer 2508 days ago
>Important journalism isn't free.

Isn't it? It seems that most journalism these days consists of taking things from a news agency feed and polluting them with garbage opinions. Might as well read the source.

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