You Can’t Sell News by the Slice
NYTIMES.com
By MICHAEL KINSLEY
Published: February 9, 2009
SOMEWHERE at Microsoft, there is a closet packed with leftover Slate umbrellas — a monument to the folly of asking people to pay for what they read on the Internet. These umbrellas — a $20 value! — were the premium we offered to people who would pay $19 for a year’s subscription to Slate, the Microsoft-owned online magazine (later purchased by The Washington Post). We were quite self-righteous about the…
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Posted on February 22, 2009 at 1:50am —
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