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In October of last year I wrote that Newsday’s paywall would fail to attract new revenue and as a defensive pricing strategy it does little. In the final analysis, this is exactly why it will fail. By creating a pricing plan that defends rather than attacks a market the company is conceding defeat in print [...]
Cablevision must have gotten punch drunk with all of the talk coming out of newspapers about going to a subscription model for their online services, because they are going big, really big, with a $260 a year pricing plan for Newsday.com Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper – both owned [...]