  Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 5922 Registered: 02-2004 |
I'm curious. Yes or no and succinct reasons, sil vous plait. | ||
Bobl Member Username: Bobl Post Number: 464 Registered: 07-2008 |
No. Why should I? | ||
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger Post Number: 1410 Registered: 05-2008 |
Yes. Afterall, I've been a complete cheap-ass and have read the paper online for a couple of years now. | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 1161 Registered: 11-2003 |
No. I very seldom read news articles on a computer when it's free. I'm certainly not going to pay for it. I almost get a headache just thinking about reading an edition of the Freep on a computer screen. | ||
Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2184 Registered: 09-2003 |
I have subscribed to Crain's Detroit Business for about 15 years and watched them evolve into the cyber age. If either for both Detroit papers [<- funny word that anymore] followed on their hybrid model - a mailed-weekly quality print version with in depth articles and absence of BS combined with a compelling website and daily 'push' updates and alert emails, I would consider it. I appreciate them most for metro and state news coverage. IMO they should give up any pretense of trying to cover Washington or international news, other than local Canadian, and focus like a laser on comprehensive local news coverage. That's their beat - stay with it and get better. Crain's works because they provide quality and deliver something I can't ~conveniently~ find anywhere else. They have focus. They can get and retain me as a loyal customer even though I disagree with their overall political stance. This is what I would need to subscribe. | ||
Jerrytimes Member Username: Jerrytimes Post Number: 170 Registered: 04-2007 |
I'm saying no | ||
Olddetroiter Member Username: Olddetroiter Post Number: 1435 Registered: 04-2008 |
No way. I have home delivery of the Detroit News now and don't want to be tied to the computer to read the news. I'm switching to the Oakland Press next month so I can keep 7 day home delivery. | ||
Macknwarren Member Username: Macknwarren Post Number: 121 Registered: 10-2007 |
The online Free Press will continue to be free, won't it? | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1812 Registered: 04-2008 |
No, not until they settle the strike with the original union(s), and compensate all the original strikers...and even then, no. | ||
Ptero Member Username: Ptero Post Number: 190 Registered: 12-2005 |
nope | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 6517 Registered: 12-2005 |
Succintly, I won't subscribe to the online Detroit News because I'll continue to get the complimentary hardcopy at breakfast -- as long as that lasts. http://www.edetroitnews.com/ had some copy&paste problems. A graphic came out too small and in black&white. Maybe that's just growing pains. I'd rather not have to carry my laptop to a restaurant for breakfast. Maybe it would work if the restaurant had those tables that could display an image of the paper. I could accept that if I could copy&paste data from it to a portable USB flash drive on my keychain. (Message edited by Jimaz on February 06, 2009) | ||
Rid0617 Member Username: Rid0617 Post Number: 386 Registered: 03-2008 |
NOPE to any pay online paper | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 894 Registered: 08-2007 |
My SUB started out with Fri -Sun, then Thurs got tossed in for free, then the rest of the week started showing up under my car.I will not pay for online subs so I guess if I do keep the freep I,ll read it when it comes or pick one up at the 7/11. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 2950 Registered: 01-2004 |
Not it. | ||
Marshall Member Username: Marshall Post Number: 36 Registered: 09-2008 |
I won't pay. It's a shame that this city won't have a daily paper any more. The New York Times used to charge and now I believe they are free. Too many other good, free news sources out there. Besides, as someone said on this forum, you can't put your computer under the litter box or bring it into the porcelan library with you. (Message edited by marshall on February 06, 2009) | ||
Kathleen Member Username: Kathleen Post Number: 2168 Registered: 10-2003 |
We subscribe to both the Freep and the News. I enjoy sitting down to read the paper at breakfast, and after dinner in the evening. I spend 8+ hrs a day sitting in front of a computer at work, plus a couple more hours checking in here or corresponding with friends or working on personal projects. I really can't see sitting in front of the computer for another hour to read my daily news. One aspect of reading the physical newspaper is the ability to browse the pages within a section from top to bottom, from front to back, in any order I choose, to scan the biggest headline to the smallest news item, picking what I want to read, to read what grabs my attention. I can't imagine doing that on the computer. I'm sure that the subscription site will accommodate page views and scan and zoom functions, but it just won't be the same. Certainly I read some news on the computer each day, but not local news. I'm sure that I would not see and enjoy all the news items and features that I read in the print version. And it's unlikely that I would ever will subscribe to both papers online. So we'll be spending less money. Good for us, but that's a revenue loss for the paper that I would have to chuck. | ||
Rocknrollscientist Member Username: Rocknrollscientist Post Number: 103 Registered: 05-2005 |
@Marshall: Actually, the New York Times is considering going back to a paid-subscription business model for online content. http://blogs.reuters.com/media file/2009/02/04/new-york-times -still-thinks-about-charging/ | ||
Hornist9 Member Username: Hornist9 Post Number: 203 Registered: 05-2005 |
No. I will miss reading the Freep with a cup of coffee. I won't run to a store on a bitterly cold morning just for a paper. CNN will have to suffice. I will take the Sunday Freep just for the coupons. | ||
Defendbrooklyn Member Username: Defendbrooklyn Post Number: 951 Registered: 11-2005 |
no... It's not good enough. It doesn't dig deep enough to provide truth... | ||
Marshall Member Username: Marshall Post Number: 37 Registered: 09-2008 |
This is somewhat "tongue-in-cheek" but I wonder how much our physiognomy will evolve over time with more dependence on display tubes and less on print. Will we have bigger, more sensitive eyes like the aliens in the tabloids? Will our posture change to one more conducive to sitting in front of a tube all day? Will we grow extra fingers and wrist muscles? Personally I never could get into e-books. I like to relax in my favorite chair with my book or a newspaper in hand, enjoying the experience. But then again I'm 60 and getting kind of set in my ways. Besides 8 hours a day in front of a monitor is plenty. Like Kathleen said. (Message edited by marshall on February 06, 2009) | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 1351 Registered: 03-2006 |
Going to the "can" with my laptop just wouldnt work for me. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1228 Registered: 12-2003 |
Kathleen-- If you subscribe to the print papers (Thursday-Sunday) you automatically can access the electronic editions on any day for free. | ||
Buckster1986 Member Username: Buckster1986 Post Number: 10 Registered: 08-2007 |
I recently subscribed to the Free Press. I get the print edition 3 times a week and have access to the online edition (even though it's free right now). If you like to see the actual layout of the paper than it is worth it. I bet they come out with some elctronic tablet that you can download the PDFs and read them on it. Nothing will ever beat the real thing. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 1669 Registered: 11-2005 |
"I very seldom read news articles on a computer when it's free. I'm certainly not going to pay for it. " "It's not good enough. It doesn't dig deep enough to provide truth..." That's my big problem with the Internet: It goes against capitalism. I'm all for free, too, but if people keep stealing MP3s or newspapers keep giving away content, why would they continue to stay in business if there's no money to be made in it? Sad but true. So if nobody wants to pay for news, and the corporations that run the papers aren't making money and either fold or fold the News or Free Press, how are we the people supposed to know what's going on? I agree they don't always hit homers, but the body in ice, Synagro and lest we not forget that the Free Press is the paper that exposed and brought down a corrupt mayor. So yeah, I might have to suffer through articles about petting zoos or some such nonsense sometimes, but I disagree with you guys. Granted, I'm sure I'm in the minority. | ||
Buyamerican Member Username: Buyamerican Post Number: 891 Registered: 02-2007 |
I won't pay for online Freep. The day my delivery stops with the Free Press is the day that I start the Macomb Daily 7 days a week. | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 584 Registered: 04-2006 |
I will cause it's hard to sit in the Lazy Boy with my coffee and computer in my slippees and jammies in the morning. | ||
Raj313 Member Username: Raj313 Post Number: 11 Registered: 01-2009 |
Nope, why buy the cow when the milk is free? | ||
Thames Member Username: Thames Post Number: 375 Registered: 02-2007 |
"I won't pay. It's a shame that this city won't have a daily paper any more." The papers will publish 7 days a week, just like they do now. They are cutting back on delivery days. No, I won't subscribe. Too many other places to get news online. Paying for the internet is costly enough. If I want to read those papers, I'll get off my ass and go buy one. But I don't see that happening either.  | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3465 Registered: 07-2004 |
Instead of wasting money by printing an actual newspaper on several days, which their older readers want to read, they're wasting money by trying to get their older readers to read it in a medium they don't want to. How silly!  | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 7685 Registered: 10-2003 |
I can't read the news on my laptop while riding the bus, so no. |
