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| Paid Online News Venture Fails To Get Subscribers |
| from the it-seemed-different-on-paper dept. |
| posted by timothy on Thursday April 23, @17:49 (The Media) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/23/2121232 |
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[0]Ian Lamont writes "The idea of migrating people from free online news
content to paid subscriptions has been dealt a blow. A venture meant to
fill the void left by the print Rocky Mountain Times [1]has attracted
3,000 subscribers — just 6% of its original goal of reaching 50,000 paid
subscribers by Thursday. [2]InDenverTimes.com is currently free, but the
plan was to have gated premium content starting next month for a $5/month
subscription. The project has entrepreneurial backing and articles from
journalists who used to work for the print-focused Rocky Mountain News,
[3]which closed last month. However, a lack of paying subscribers and low
online ad rates means that the venture might have to scale back its
ambitions."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/04/23/2121232
Links:
0. http://www.thestandard.com/people/i-lamont550036
1.
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/04/23/denver-online-newspaper-misses-subscription-goal
2. http://www.indenvertimes.com/
3.
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/02/26/rocky-mountain-news-closing-after-friday-edition
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