AZ Gull
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£60 will be the full price. At the moment there is a half-price offer at £30.
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[Albion] Andy Naylor is leaving
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£60 will be the full price. At the moment there is a half-price offer at £30.
AZ Gull
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You misunderstand.
I pay $46.77 per year for the electronic version of the newspaper (ie exactly what you would purchase in the newsagent's).
If you wish to pay a multiple of that just to be able to hold paper in your hands, so be it, but you are paying much more than you need to.
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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I honestly don't get why people are surprised about this. The Athletic is launching today – offering a completely different business model to anything that is out there (in the UK) at the moment – and people expect them NOT to shout about it from the rooftops?
It's got one shot (today) before everything else takes over with previews and build-up to the weekend, of COURSE it's going to make sure all of its' writers retweeting the feck out of it! Add to that the fact that because it's ad-free, part of the job description of the writers, by proxy, is to act as a salesmen for the title. It wouldn't surprise me if the hacks were on some kind of bonus scheme based on how many subscriptions had been generated via their own Twitter account.
Personally I have no problem with what The Athletic is doing. Publishing/journalism isn't going to survive on the 'free content' concept forever...
BrickTamland
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His (already quite large) ego is being inflated today!
HitchinSeagull
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- Aug 9, 2012
- 414
Ok thanks, I must have misread it, well that seems more reasonable.
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£60 is the full price if you pay up front (after the half price year). Otherwise £9.99 per month.
London Irish
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Gotcha. Yeh it's funny I don't regard paying the extra as a loss. 98 per cent of my life is staring at screens and I will pay a bit extra not to do so. I think if you feel some kind of pull towards a product you will do that, even tho the Argus is a shadow of what it was. Can this new thing recreate that pull/loyalty, big challenge obviously
I'm still enjoying the insightful features but there's something slightly irritating about the overall enterprise. I think it's the repeated insistence that they've got everything covered and care about the small clubs as much as the big clubs when that's plainly not true. The morning daily newsletter that dropped into my inbox today for example: "At the moment, with some 72 hours or so until the transfer deadline, there's little to talk about except the moves that will shape the early part of the season".
Hmm. Well, one of the clubs they're supposedly all over did sign a player for north of £20m yesterday, but let's hear some more about Harry Maguire shall we? A threat to magazines maybe. Newspapers are safe.
Hmm. Well, one of the clubs they're supposedly all over did sign a player for north of £20m yesterday, but let's hear some more about Harry Maguire shall we? A threat to magazines maybe. Newspapers are safe.
He sounds a nice chap.
Not Andy Naylor
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Apparently there is.
Paul Reids Sock
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Seeing as they were all kicking around their own individual discount codes last night I would assume they would take a view on how many subscribers are there from Andys code. If he is adjudged to be bringing in more than he costs then he will probably stay.
If not some form of relegation release would probably kick in and Albion be no longer covered
Dirk Lehmann's Python
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I've heard talk of a £2.50 a month offer. Where is this please?
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I was thinking of subscribing. I'm not a fan of The Argus, but with that statement they've lost this potential customer.
London Irish
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As if 99.9% of finance guys don't talk like that and much worse
Yep. Me too. And I'll think poorly of anybody who DOES support the venture.
Do they? State frankly, on public record, that their whole business plan is based on putting local operations out of business? Bullshit.
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Hove / Παρος
Such typical American business man's mentality - and they often don't see it as wrong. I've had to deal with a few over here in CR and their approach is extremely cut throat.