Comments on: New York Times’ Paywall Pays Off

By: Cynthia Typaldos

Cynthia Typaldos — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:30:34 +0000

Regarding Invantory’s statement:

“Newspapers’ online technology platforms [are] not standard,” wrote co-founder Ian Lamont on the Invantory blog. “This means that non-trivial integration work is required for practically any new feature or service, whether created in-house or purchased from a vendor. There are dozens of online content management systems (CMS) in use, most heavily customized.”

I wrote a blog post in January 2010 on the very same issue, titled – “Why I rejected SubscriptionPal in favor of DonationPal (now called Kachingle)”.
http://blog.kachingle.com/2010/01/why-i-rejected-subscriptionpal-in-favor-of-donationpal-now-called-kachingle/

“The back-end implementation is a nightmare. The development effort was/is the real killer – not only would it have been a huge effort to build SubscriptionPal but then it would have to be retrofitted it into all parts of every participating content site and integrated with their subscriber system. Not only would this be incredibly expensive, given the state of some of the content sites’ CMSs it wouldn’t even be possible.”

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By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:28 +0000

Don’t get swept up in a wave of euphoria that tells you that this marginal success by the NY Times has widespread application for newspapers across the country. There are still hardcore zealots who believe the NY Times offers something different and special but the fact is the best news is still being written elsewhere and available free on the Internet. Only newspapers who write good stuff will be read and paid for. Most news at the local level is still marginal and overly influenced by editors and politics. I know many journalists hope this early result from the paywall on the NY Times will expand to many other newspapers but I don’t see it at all with the exception of a very few sources such as the WSJ. BTW, the WSJ even reported a decline in readership in the latest reports. Hmmmm…

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