Wall Street Journal - ONLY $18 per month!

Maxipad users - OPEN YOUR WALLETS! The CLOUD is ready to start fleecing
you!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20001150-93.html

The Wall Street Journal will cost $17.99/month just to read its newspaper
on an iPad. How lucky you are! That's cheaper than having a real person
HAND DELIVER it to your door each day!

The advertisers can't WAIT to have at the little screens that prevent ad
blocking like real computers. They're lining up to sell you Toyotas,
Unilevers, Fidelity Investments for BIG MONEY!

All part of the great new BOX OFFICE and BILLBOARD ADVERTISING DEVICE,
coming to a BIG pocket or briefcase on YOU real soon!

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"iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!"

Larry

Larry <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> The Wall Street Journal will cost $17.99/month just to read its newspaper
> on an iPad. How lucky you are! That's cheaper than having a real person
> HAND DELIVER it to your door each day!

WSJ is already expensive, iPad or not. Even if you have a
paper subscription, they charge significantly for web access.
Whether you have web acces, paper delivery or both, they also
charge you a subscription for iPhone access.

What makes anyone think they're going to try any less hard
to bleed your wallet on an iPad?

The real question is whether folks who are currently giving
away excellent free content on iPhones are going to try to
play the WSJ's game on the iPad. The NYTimes app and content
is a model of excellence. I sincerely hope they don't blow it.

The other question is whether any of these media outlets
can afford to keep existing -- what pay model they can use
to survive. Hopefully the iPad and other similar devices
will pave the way to a compromise that consumers can live
with -- and which finds a way to support the media so that
they can continue to exist, too. Love them or hate them,
our world would be a worse place without newspapers.


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