The Boston Globe

[dsrtao]

$36/month -- delivered paper.
$17/month -- web access to "the electronic edition" -- PDF
$10/month -- Kindle edition
Free -- http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/?p1=GN_TodaysGlobe

Also free:

http://news.google.com
http://www.universalhub.com

Comments

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Holding the paper in your hands and clipping articles -- priceless.

The web will never replace that, and you do nto get the ad stuffs, which can save you that much money anyway.

I am an old-school purist. I need the ink on my fingers.

And don't forget with the web stuff, unless you are at a library, you bought teh computer and you *are* paying for access [a fraction fo which goes for accessing the Globe, I know], and for a Kindle, well, yeah, that costs something, too.

Though I am excited about the new, alrger Kindle.

[dsrtao]

The Globe has rather few coupons in it, because it doesn't have a sufficiently good match-up between the audience and the potential advertisers.

My local pizza places can't afford to advertise in the Globe, and most people who read the Globe aren't close enough for delivery. But the local paper does carry pizza ads and coupons, because there's a good match-up. Similarly, the Globe doesn't want to waste space on the high-school sports games (although it occasionally covers a team that's doing really well) but the local paper does have readers who care about it.

I don't think that local newspapers are going away. They provide value well-matched to their audiences. (Their costs go down, too -- a reporter no longer has an office, they get laptops, cellphones and cellmodems.)

There's also a 'digital divide' issue, of course. Not everyone is online. But it's clear that enough of the Globe's potential audience is online, that they don't have a business model any more.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I was thinking specifically grocery coupons, both store-specific and generic.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

It has been a very long time since I've seen a grocery coupon that was worth the time to cut it out. 50 cents off of 12 cans of soup and things like that is what I tend to see. Are you seeing better coupons?

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

It's like anything else.

If you clip what's there are use it, you save a little.

If you combine it with store sales and double coupons, you can do a lot better.

I know folks who do this (including my wife).

She always wants the Stunday papers, and she prefers I get them in certain areas, because some editions have better coupons.

There is also a whole new world of coupons on the web, which doesn;t reallt pertain to my point. ;)