If they were rolling in money like Mr. Burns your vitriol would be warranted. They are dying and they are trying to figure out how to stay alive. These are not actions of. These are actions of desperation. Watch for the cuts local TV will make in 2017 when all the campaign spending goes away. Banner ads don't generate squat in revenue. >From now on only a fraction of journalists will have health plans and >retirement plans. Sent from Type Mail
On May 29, 2015, 3:25 PM, at 3:25 PM, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: >EW is among the magazines who stopped paying all but a few of their >writers >last year. Now they want people to pay to read what they aren't paying >to >have written? It isn't as if I had any respect left for Entertainment >Weekly, but this dumbass decision puts their respect level in negative >numbers. > >On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Site-by-site, beginning with *Entertainment Weekly*... >>> >>> MediaPost >>> ><http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/250895/time-inc-rolls-out-paid-content-ewcom-first-t.html> >>> (link) >>> >> >> Best of luck to them. I will, however, share this work around I found >a >> few months ago. I was looking around my library's website and found >that >> they now have what they call an eNewstand. They subscribe to >magazines >> through a vender called Zinio. Zinio scans print magazines, ad pages >and >> all, and inserts hyperlinks to URLs in stories and ads and also >"continued >> on page..." notes when a story jumps to the rear pages. To download >and >> read these magazines you need an app called Zinio for Libraries >(there is a >> generic Zinio app, but that's for subscriptions you buy from their >website). >> >> My local library, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, subscribes to >over >> 100 magazines including the major ones. I just checked and they do >not have >> the Time, Inc magazines so a reader would have to make do with >Newsweek, >> The Economist, The Atlantic, etc. There is no limit on the number of >issues >> you can download and no time limit. I assume that Time, Inc will >exempt >> links from social media from their reading limit like other media >companies >> do, but if I see a story in a Time, Inc property and find I'm cut off >by >> the pay wall I know where else to go. >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > >-- >Kevin M. (RPCV) > >-- >-- >TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected] >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >--- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
