Paywalled NYT Now Has 300,000 Online Subscribers 179
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the derided-on-slashdot paywall for the NY Times hasn't brought down the paper so far. The Times now reports 300,000 digital subscribers (to e-reader versions and the web combined) and digital advertising revenue for the part of the company that includes the paper has increased 6% this quarter."
Well... (Score:5, Interesting)
Keep in mind that every print subscriber gets a free top-of-the-line digital subscription. Its actually cheaper to get the paper edition and recycle it then it is to just get the online, in fact, which is annoyingly stupid.
Taco and the iPod (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:this just in! (Score:4, Interesting)
Slashdot overall actually has about every opinion possible. Some of the most loved (ie - highly moderated) opinions turn out to be as wrong as they could possibly be.
Consider this gem [slashdot.org], particularly "If Apple enters that market with a phone, they're fucked". Fucked with finding warehouse space to store pallets of money, as it turns out.
Though there were plenty of opinions contrary to that one the groupthink doesn't often push them to the top.