Wall Street Journal subscription could cost more in the future
January 25th, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 35 times, 3 so far today
Wall Street Journal subscription could cost more in the future
Rupert Murdoch has earlier said that he wanted to make available more portions from the Wall Street Journal for non paying web users. The aim was to generate revenues from online advertising.
However, he has now confirmed that not everything on the web based news service would be made freely available.
A subscription model would continue and would probably cost more in the future. He said in a statement on the plans for WSJ.com: “The really special things will still be a subscription service, and, sorry to tell you, probably more expensive.”
His company News Corp. had acquired Dow Jones & Co. last month.
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January 25th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Does anyone still read the WSJ anymore? I cancelled my subscription a long time ago.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:39 am
WITH A SUBSCRIPTION ENDING THIS WEEK,I feel fortunate. I won’t miss the hard to read web site, the nearly unworkable clickability email so-called service, all the while waiting to see what Mr. Murdoch thinks this is worth. No idea why the promotions leading to my subscription involved getting paper delivery 6 days a week/must have pumped circulation to get Mr. M to pay more;unless one rides a train – and I don’t even have to live there much less ride that train,no one with a real job can read the entire paper.The only paper read here was occasionally the weekend and that only when the NYTimes subscription accidentally didn’t get renewed. Seems to me that Eddie Lampert and Rupert Murdoch have near equal challenges – so I wish him luck raising prices.