Just great. Our local newspaper is *ONLY* available online to subscribers.

[Archae]

No access to the Sheboygan Press for non-subscribers.

BTW, it's Gannett-owned.

[Still Sensible]

1. Tulsa World allows you to see 10 stories

per calendar month if you aren't a subscriber. I used to check the LATimes site daily, but hey went subscriber, too. Of course he New York Times has some hybrid subscriber model, but I haven't bothered to read their rules.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Mine did that a year ago.

Of course, they didn't count on Technology. Using Chrome, I just X out of the message that says "you need to be a subscriber to read this, click here" and that popup box goes away where I can read the article.

[MineralMan]

3. Well, that's a tough one.

How's that newspaper doing financially? If it's like most, it's on the verge of going under. I subscribe to the paper version of my local newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It's been shrinking steadily, and now, they've combined the front section with the local section 6 days a week. Ad sales are down, and they've cut their staff dramatically. I rarely go to their website, since I real the paper every morning and they don't update the website all that often between times.

It's a trend. If people don't subscribe to that online version, odds are it won't be around much longer in any useful form. In fact, the paper itself may fold up. That's why I subscribe. I'm hoping the paper doesn't go under, which could happen, despite its circulation of over 250,000.

It's a shame. The paper delivery person drops off my paper, but doesn't stop anywhere else on my block. A sad business.

[Sienna86]

5. Most newspapers are having a tough time.

I subscribe even though I can read the newspaper online. My newspaper does excellent investigative reporting, and I don't know who can do that in their absence.

[MineralMan]

7. Yes. That's how I feel, too. I don't care about

their national news coverage, but I do want the local stuff. So, I subscribe, in part to keep the paper alive.

[TouchOfGray]

4. I don't understand the nature of your complaint

All of print media is in a death struggle to survive and are looking to find business models in order to do so.

I notice that you are a "star member", a donor, indicating that you are willing to pay for content that you deem important to you.

Perhaps if the Sheboygan Press is meaningful enough to your daily life it would be worth it to you to subscribe.

[Island Blue]

6. Are hard copies either by subscription or in stores, etc. free?

Newspapers are business, and even though they don't generate the majority of their revenue from subscriptions, the don't usually give their product away for free.

[Lex]

8. Poor newspapers. They are turning into the horse-and-buggy of our time.

nt

[Nye Bevan]

9. Whoa. How DARE the people who produce that newspaper expect to be paid for their work?

What audacity.

[Lex]

10. Whoa, they can't put ads or click-throughs on their webpage?

?

[msongs]

12. whoa, you can't cough up a few pennies a day to subscribe? nt

[Lex]

15. My ability to pay misses the point by a mile. Newpapers are dying because they won't adapt

to online technology, which is now reader preference by and large, and new advertising models.

[Archae]

17. Well...

The Sheboygan Press does have an all-digital edition.

[Nye Bevan]

19. The problem is that lots of freeloaders use adblock software.

Like this guy....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5254659&mesg_id=5254853

If people didn't do that, then your idea would be more likely to work.

[postulater]

11. Appleton Post Crescent also.

And also Gannett paper.

My mother is canceling her PC subscription so she can pay for the increase in her Medicare supplement premium.

And to top it off the premium increase is to the insurance company that my brother-in-law just got a huge bonus from. He's an exec attorney there.

[HiPointDem]

13. how do you suggest they stay in business?

[a kennedy]

14. Lotsa papers are doing that....

Wisconsin State Journal, La Crosse Tribune, Winona's paper. First you get like 15 articles for free a month, then you have to pay if you want anymore during the month. So I just pick my articles very carefully and not go over my 15 for the month.

[Archae]

16. I buy the Sunday paper, but that's all.

The other 6 days a week, the Sheboygan Press isn't worth it, even as a birdcage liner.

Their "top commentator" is Cal Thomas, whihc gives you an idea of the political leanings of their editorial page.

The obituaries though are still available to non-subscribers.

[boppers]

18. So, pay for a local that isn't wasting money on paper. Or don't expect things for free.

Lots of reporters and journalists are starting their own online "presses", and cutting out idiocy like printing things on paper, paying for office space, and running huge physical distribution operations for their paper products.

[kestrel91316]

20. Los Angeles Times allows 15 free articles per month, then you have to pay.

I refuse to pay. I'll do without their pathetic "journalism" for now. I can always buy a paper copy if I really MUST read something.

They have PLENTY of advertising on the site, BTW, so it's not like they need readers' money.