The New York Times Considering Truncated Print Edition At Discount Rate (w/unlimited digital access)

[big_dog]

The New York Times is considering the introduction of a truncated version of its daily print edition at a discounted rate as the paper mulls new strategies for maximizing the number of people who pay to read its content.

The potential offering "would be significantly shorter than the current edition and offer a selection of the day's best content for roughly half the price," according to a recent reader survey that was shared with Capital. As with a standard print subscription, it would also come with unlimited digital access, the survey said. Daily delivery of the full print edition costs $23.60 to $67.60 every four weeks depending on location and frequency. A The shorter print option would dovetail with new digital apps the Times has been rolling out to cater to readers who aren't necessarily willing to pay for nytimes.com's full buffet of content, to which unlimited digital access begins at $15 a month. Those reader-driven circulation dollars are seen as a key growth area in the face of ongoing declines in advertising, particularly in the print category. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/07/8549875/shorter-emtimesem

[pinto]

1. Sounds like a smart move given the market for print media. (nt)

[Carolina]

3. "offer a selection of the day's best content for roughly half the price"

What a joke!

I wouldn't want the NYT's best content for free. That rag lost all credibility with the likes of Judith Miller, with its support of the Iraq invasion/occupation and long ago, with its gushing headlines about Bill and Monica. It was so upset that it had been upstaged by The Washington Post with Watergate, Nixon and a real crime worthy of presidential impeachment in the 1970s, that it jumped on every morsel offered by repukes during the Clinton years.

Now its begging for readers (just like the long lost venerable Washington Post). Too bad, suckers. This is what happens when journalism devolves to stenography.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. despite miller the NYT is still a top news content provider.

[big_dog]

6. this sounds like a 'Headline News' version of the NYT

but if it works for busy people, fine

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Flexible color e-ink readers will be the salvation of newspapers and magazines.