Thanks for the comment, Ken — I'm not saying that
subscription content never works or can't be part of a publishing strategy.
Not exact matches
Once deals like this take place and broader digital publishing options open up for newspapers, digital newspaper and magazines
subscription providers are able to step in with a quality, easy to use app that allows consumers to access a wide variety of
content that they otherwise
never would have found.
Given that the site charges $ 5.99 for premium
subscriptions giving full unlimited access to the full
content set, the weekly
subscription is a clever way to boost their margins and suggests that the company is conscious a) of the value in curation and b) that there are multiple types of consumers, many of whom would
never subscribe to the whole site, but might well consider the weekly option, because it limits the reading needed to derive value!
However, the really annoying thing is that when a publisher, who has supplied their
content to the aggregators for many years, suddenly withdraws their
content from the aggregator's site, we are
never offered a reduction in
subscription to compensate.
While it had made discounted trial
subscriptions to Audible available at times, it
never actually gave away Audible's
content for free like this.