Explain this one to me... (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Ected]

I play a game daily on the Washington Post website called Play Four, and it is a silly little word game. Recently the Post has started limiting the number of times you can play in a row. (This only occurs when you miss a couple days and feel like doing them all) The 'error' causes you to go to a page that offers subscriptions.

My question is why does it cost $99 (Digital) or $149/year (Digital Premium) for digital only subscriptions (Premium has a smart device app.) and $54/year for a subscription with a Sunday paper and a Premium subscription? Heck it only costs $155 for a daily paper and the Premium.

Why would they charge more for the Digital only subscriptions? It's cheaper for them to distribute!! And people wonder why newspapers are dying...

 

[Mr. Retukes]

Maybe the regular subscription offer has a limited delivery area, which forces out-of-towners to get the digital version?

 

[Slapdash]

Maybe they think making the digit cheaper would cannibalize print customers?

 

[Eminence]

Maybe they think making the digit cheaper would cannibalize print customers?

This.

 

[KCitons]

Maybe they think making the digit cheaper would cannibalize print customers?

Paperboys threatened to go on Strike?

 

[Mister CIA]

My guess, there's a lot of advertising revenue to be made with the Sunday paper.

ETA: probably the same reason why Comcast internet is cheaper with basic cable than no cable at all.

 

[Das Boot]

Maybe they're not good at the maths.

 

[sports_fan]

because they are operating at a loss and desperate for money

 

[bentley]

Because that's where the demand is?

 

[NutterButter]

My guess, there's a lot of advertising revenue to be made with the Sunday paper.

ETA: probably the same reason why Comcast internet is cheaper with basic cable than no cable at all.

Really? By how much? With cablevision, they only take 5 bucks off the cost of internet if you also have tv

 

[HellToupee]

) for digital only subscriptions (Premium has a smart device app.) and $54/year for a subscription with a Sunday paper and a Premium subscription?

Bezos rolled the WP app for Amazon Fire tablets. Its free for 6 months and 99 cents total for the next 6 months. So basically 99 cents for a year. Regular rates supposedly after a year but after getting the product free I don't know how they will charge $54 for a year. I read it almost every day but I'm not paying full price when my time is up