Advertiser paywall

[Paul Davis (Advertiser)]

Hey, folks.

Just a quick explanation about what's happening with the Advertiser and paying for access to online stories.

Like most newspapers, the Advertiser are putting some content behind a paywall. Many others papers have already done it or are planning to do it. It costs money to pay the wages of journalists who are delivering news and features and that outlay has to be recouped.

Most papers' online content has been free for years but it never should have been really. It's a bad business model to give your stuff away for nothing.

Rotherham United material has always done well online and the Advertiser are aware of the benefits of a strong online presence. I think the Millers content will be a mix of free and paid-for articles (20p) but final decisions on that are above my pay grade.

If anyone is interested, you can buy a full digital edition of the paper for the same price as a hard copy - £1.10. There's no tie-in. You can buy one edition at a time. You don't have to sign up to anything. This is the link: https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...l-editions.htm

Hope you keep reading.

Cheers,

Paul Davis.

[LincsMiller]

Hey, folks.

Just a quick explanation about what's happening with the Advertiser and paying for access to online stories.

Like most newspapers, the Advertiser are putting some content behind a paywall. Many others papers have already done it or are planning to do it. It costs money to pay the wages of journalists who are delivering news and features and that outlay has to be recouped.

Most papers' online content has been free for years but it never should have been really. It's a bad business model to give your stuff away for nothing.

Rotherham United material has always done well online and the Advertiser are aware of the benefits of a strong online presence. I think the Millers content will be a mix of free and paid-for articles (20p) but final decisions on that are above my pay grade.

If anyone is interested, you can buy a full digital edition of the paper for the same price as a hard copy - £1.10. There's no tie-in. You can buy one edition at a time. You don't have to sign up to anything. This is the link: https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...l-editions.htm

Hope you keep reading.

Cheers,

Paul Davis.

Thanks for that Paul

[kentmillerman]

Hey, folks.

Just a quick explanation about what's happening with the Advertiser and paying for access to online stories.

Like most newspapers, the Advertiser are putting some content behind a paywall. Many others papers have already done it or are planning to do it. It costs money to pay the wages of journalists who are delivering news and features and that outlay has to be recouped.

Most papers' online content has been free for years but it never should have been really. It's a bad business model to give your stuff away for nothing.

Rotherham United material has always done well online and the Advertiser are aware of the benefits of a strong online presence. I think the Millers content will be a mix of free and paid-for articles (20p) but final decisions on that are above my pay grade.

If anyone is interested, you can buy a full digital edition of the paper for the same price as a hard copy - £1.10. There's no tie-in. You can buy one edition at a time. You don't have to sign up to anything. This is the link: https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...l-editions.htm

Hope you keep reading.

Cheers,

Paul Davis.

Agreed Paul. Paid and methinks worth it. Thanks for all your reports.

[flourbasher]

I've always thought it was strange that articles are given away free on the net.
As you say salaries and costs have to be paid.
I assumed that the ones you placed on the web were, mainly, a few days old so the Tiser would still sell the papers hot off the press

[CASPER-64-FRANK]

Thanks for that Paul.
It’s a no-brainer for anyone that can’t access the Advertiser paper on a Thursday night / Friday morning.

[LincsMiller]

Thanks for that Paul.
It’s a no-brainer for anyone that can’t access the Advertiser paper on a Thursday night / Friday morning.

Hey Casper , just had a look at an example of what you get, quite an old edition, Tony Whyte and Marti Caine on at the Canklow Club !

[CASPER-64-FRANK]

Hey Casper , just had a look at an example of what you get, quite an old edition, Tony Whyte and Marti Caine on at the Canklow Club !

As I remember Acts that were not
up to scratch at Canklow Club were given a slow handclap and paid up.
Happy days.
Well worth the subscription.

[pip_y]

Shame the Advertiser is t available on PressReader as I have an annual subscription. The Football League paper has good match reports together with some good features.