Comments on: The New York Times Joins the Point To Economy http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/09/the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: K http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/09/the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy.php#comment-9550 K Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:09:04 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/09/the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy.php#comment-9550 <p>They acknowledge that search rules the web experience and front pages have little currency on a site with content spread across limitless pages. Maybe this also means the end of trying to control the users' navigation path. (Could I hope for an end to vilification of url-twiddling?)</p> They acknowledge that search rules the web experience and front pages have little currency on a site with content spread across limitless pages. Maybe this also means the end of trying to control the users’ navigation path. (Could I hope for an end to vilification of url-twiddling?)

]]> By: DVJ http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/09/the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy.php#comment-9549 DVJ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:07:08 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/09/the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy.php#comment-9549 <p>While we'll never hear the results of this move, it'll be interesting to see if Ad revenue can equal subscription revenue.....I'm suspecting a resounding NO. Today's CPMs are so miniscule that page counts will have to go up by many multiples. I don't see it happening except for people like John who actually use the archives.</p> <p>Paying for archives is and never would have been the savior of good journalism. I also don't think paid archives somehow lend value to journalism. There is a cost to providing archives for free. Servers, bandwidth, etc. Maybe they are hoping to break even?</p> While we’ll never hear the results of this move, it’ll be interesting to see if Ad revenue can equal subscription revenue…..I’m suspecting a resounding NO. Today’s CPMs are so miniscule that page counts will have to go up by many multiples. I don’t see it happening except for people like John who actually use the archives.

Paying for archives is and never would have been the savior of good journalism. I also don’t think paid archives somehow lend value to journalism. There is a cost to providing archives for free. Servers, bandwidth, etc. Maybe they are hoping to break even?

]]> By: Brijit http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/09/the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy.php#comment-9548 Brijit Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:45:19 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2007/09/the_new_york_times_joins_the_point_to_economy.php#comment-9548 <p>Commodity content gets commodity pricing, so the price of news goes to zero. Great for the consumer. Unless, of course, our unwillingness to pay for content makes it impossible for the unique, high-quality, low-volume, long-form publishers to make a living, in which case we all lose.</p> <p>Wouldn’t it be ironic if the New York Times, which holds itself up as a bastion of editorial integrity and quality journalism, helped kill both?<br /> </p> Commodity content gets commodity pricing, so the price of news goes to zero. Great for the consumer. Unless, of course, our unwillingness to pay for content makes it impossible for the unique, high-quality, low-volume, long-form publishers to make a living, in which case we all lose.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the New York Times, which holds itself up as a bastion of editorial integrity and quality journalism, helped kill both?

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