{"id":293,"date":"2009-07-09T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-07-09T22:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:39:55","slug":"double_skim_venti_iced_mocha_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/07\/double_skim_venti_iced_mocha_n\/","title":{"rendered":"Double skim Venti iced mocha no whip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that our generation has become so absorbed with the Entitlement of Free that it will to refuse to pay $5 per month for <i>The New York Times<\/i>? Or is that so not the point. [Via <i><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5311185\/would-you-pay-5-a-month-to-read-the-new-york-times-online\">Gawker<\/a><\/i>.]<i> <br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At long last, the <em><a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged NEW YORK TIMES\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> may have figured out how to <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5145647\/should-the-new-york-times-charge-for-its-website\">make money<\/a> off its website: by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a8GofbbtFf8w\">charging<\/a> for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=a8GofbbtFf8w\">Bloomberg reports<\/a><br \/>\nthat the NYT is floating the idea of charging $5 a month to access its<br \/>\nwebsite in a survey of readers. (It also asked if subscribers would be<br \/>\nwilling to pay $2.50 per month).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;If all 650,000 print subscribers paid $5 a month for the website, that<br \/>\nwould be an instant $39 million per year. More likely, many people<br \/>\nwould choose either only the print subscription (old people) or only<br \/>\nthe online subscription (non-old people). That means that the NYT could<br \/>\npotentially sell many more online subscriptions than it sells print<br \/>\nsubscriptions. Its website is orders of magnitudes more popular than<br \/>\nits print product already.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also on <i>Gawker<\/i> today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5311027\/gawker-comments-are-made-of-stars\">demise of the democratic comment system<\/a>. <b><i>Gawker:<\/i> Encouraging People To Not Be Idiots Since 2009. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible that our generation has become so absorbed with the Entitlement of Free that it will to refuse to pay $5 per month for The New York Times? Or is that so not the point. [Via Gawker.] At long last, the New York Times may have figured out how to make money off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}