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Are you going to buy your Sunday paper online?
Posted by Pinmonkey on 5 June 2010 - 11:58pm.
One of life's pleasures has always been the Sunday papers. I still buy papers but not as often as I used to. Now the Times want us all to pay for online access to news and how long will it be before all magazines have the option of a digital subscription. To pay for online news from reputable journalists is not an unreasonable request but it seems to me doomed to failure if others don't follow. In addition online papers are simply not as user friendly as the real thing.
I think the only thing that will get this technology moving is to bundle Kindle etc into a subscription deal.
But like the Ipod wouldn't it be great to take the your entire book/Word collection on holiday?
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Oddly enough, I cancelled my Sunday paper order last week
as it's taking me longer and longer to get through the Saturday Guardian each weekend.
Oddly enough, I cancelled my Sunday paper order last week
as it's taking me longer and longer to get through the Saturday Guardian each weekend.
Haven't bought a Sunday for years
because of this. Have only read the sport (which 'goes off' fastest) and half the guide so far...
It depends - Updated
I've only ever bought one paper a week, The Sunday Times. I've signed up for the free preview and I didn't bother to get one last week. It was nice this morning to actually be able to read it on a Sunday morning when I had my breakfast, that's something that I've only done in the past when I've bought one on the way home from a gig on a Saturday night.
However, it's quite hard going because there is a lot of info to download for each page so it doesn't render immediately, anyone with an older laptop (and it is a portable experience) would probably get a bit irritated. It does work much better if you download it and use the reader though.
I haven't worked out how the charging is going to work yet but I pay £2 a week at the moment and it's easy to read. If I can download the whole thing for £1 and read it through the week then I think I'll use it quite often. If I have to pay £2 to read it through the week then I'll mainly continue to get a paper.
UPDATE:
I've now read four or five weeks of Sunday Times "as printed" using the offline reader and I must say I like it. In the last month I've saved £10 and haven't had a pile of paper to chuck away at the end of the week. I've now signed up for the £1 for 30 days offer so I reckon I should get 5 more Sunday Times.
Once that's over I will probably get it online more often than I buy it in the shop - it's not just the cost of the paper - if I don't get round to buying it before mid morning I need to get in the car and drive round to find a copy!
The downside is that we were doing some diy a couple of weeks ago and had no old newspapers lying around to put on the floor!
Well...
...I should get my iPad tomorrow, so I'm going to see what newspapers feel like on that. I haven't bought and read a weekend paper for years - not since the kids - since I find it's just one more thing which I can't fit into the schedule! When they're bigger, and Sunday mornings become a bit more leisurely, then I'll probably give them a try then.
"When they're bigger"
Sunday mornings will be consumed with ferrying them to football / dancing classes / friends houses etc (delete as applicable).
Our Sunday mornings didn't ever get more leisurely. It's a nice idea that doesn't come true until they go to university, but thereare other compensations. Sorry about that...
Oh...
...bollocks. I might have to do a Lou from Little Britain and fake some kind of disability that requires me to be constantly seated or lying down.