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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Enticing print and online subscriptions


People should be able to personalize their news. When the newspaper gets dropped off to your house, you may have a tradition of taking out the sports section and the world news section. The rest goes in the trash and feels like a waste of money. What if each section had a price on it and you could make your own newspaper. I wonder if this would make more people want to buy an actual print subscription. The same concept can be taken to digital platforms that deliver news. As of now, when you log onto say, The New York Times, there are a list of categories in a column on the left side of the page where people can click to read whatever they want. Maybe people would be more inclined to buy digital subscriptions if they knew that when they logged on, they wouldn’t be bombarded with news that they don’t see as useful or interesting. Their home page would be already filled with a variety of news stories that they want to know about. This is an idea I had about how to entice people to subscribe to news publications more often. This personalization option is something that would only be available to those with a subscription.

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