Ziggae_6
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Does the NYT charge a subscription fee for its online newspaper???
No, didn't think so.
The WSJ DOES charge a subscription fee AND gets ad revenue from their online newspaper. Appears to most reasonable people that the public would not pay to read the NYT online paper.
If the WSJ charges $50/year (made up amount) for its online subscription and the NYT charges $0/year, then yes I would expect the WSJ to include online subscriptions in its numbers since they are PAID subscriptions.
Seems pretty elementary to me. Both circulation numbers include PAID subscriptions. Freebie online subscriptions don't count. If I printed 10 million newspapers and handed them all out on the street for free, could I claim I that have ten million subscribers??
Gill, I'm confused here on what you are saying. Newspapers DO charge for an online version of their paper. You can generally read most of the contents of newspapers online, but at the same time the NY Times, LA Times and my old hometown paper, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal actually charge for online versions (PDF's) of their daily papers. (interestingly they will offer a free version of this when they have delivery problems) and I am sure many other newspaper do the same thing. I am a subscriber of the Sun-Times because you actually get the same version of the daily paper.
The NY Times originally had a subscription where you paid a fee for getting certain areas of the paper not available online like editorial writers, but they dropped that setup. But you can still buy an online subscription.
What do you mean by they DON'T charge?