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Newspaper Subscriptions

Quitelife · 2022-01-19 10:06:09

Newspapers as many of us knew them are been more and more replaced by their online offerings, i used buy a lot of papers but you now have read most of it for free online but theres only so much you can access online, i took out a English times subscription for 5 euro a month a couple of years ago which is now a tenner a…

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#32 17-06-2024 9:32am
Oscar_Madison

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Only buy IT on Saturdays - buy SBP regularly but not every week.
Anyone else think the free online tools that allow you to bypass the subscription and read the article will kill newspapers overtime?
We need quality independent newspapers and press but if they can’t make money they won’t exist.
I don’t subscribe to any paper but given my comment above maybe i should - I can’t figure out how some papers actually make even a small profit given that hard copy newspaper sales have dropped so much- but the freely available bypass subscription tools are certainly a big threat

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