{"id":9490,"date":"2014-07-27T01:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T05:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9490"},"modified":"2014-07-27T01:41:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T05:41:04","slug":"register-bee-goes-pay-to-read-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/27\/register-bee-goes-pay-to-read-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Register & Bee goes pay-to-read… again."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s going to cost you to read yesterday’s news at GoDanRiver. Again.<\/p>\n

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Starting this past Tuesday (we’ll talk about that later in the article), The Danville Register & Bee’s website (GoDanRiver.com) is putting in a paywall again. That means that you’ll need a subscription of some sort to read articles on their website.<\/p>\n

You’ll get to read 15 articles a month for free, so don’t panic. After that it’s just a low introductory offer monthly price. After that low introductory price expires, you’ll get a higher introductory price. After that higher introductory price, you’ll be paying the same amount of money to access the website that you’d pay to actually get home delivery of the newspaper. All righty.<\/p>\n

If you pay for 7-day home delivery of the newspaper, you get access to their website for free. Confused yet? Me too.<\/p>\n

I’ll add to the confusion by pointing out all of this started five days ago but it hasn’t started yet. Has your head exploded yet?<\/p>\n

If you pay for 7-day home delivery of the newspaper and get your free access to their website, you’ll also get a digital copy of the newspaper every day. That means you’re paying for a bunch of paper to get access to their website at no additional cost, and now you’re getting a digital copy of the newspaper which means that you really didn’t need the piles of paper around your house that you’re now paying for to actually read the newspaper. Right now, I’m imagining Nancy Pelosi saying “We need to pass the bill so that we can see what’s in the bill<\/del> buy the actual newspaper so that we can see what’s in the newspaper although we don’t need the actual newspaper once we buy it.”<\/p>\n

And if you haven’t taken your Prozac yet, once the introductory offers are gone, it will cost more to access their website without buying the newspaper than if you bought the 7-day home delivery package. I CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP, PEOPLE!<\/p>\n

Here’s their Frequently Asked Questions page<\/a>. Note that “What in the hell are you doing? Have you lost your minds?” is not a Frequently Asked Question that they choose to answer.<\/p>\n

Here’s the pricing page for all of your subscription options<\/a>. Note that it has more options than the Obamacare Health Exchange does. Also note that just like Obamacare… if you like your newspaper subscription, you can keep your newspaper subscription. That worked so well for Obamacare, didn’t it? It will probably end up the same way here.<\/p>\n

This was supposed to start on Tuesday, July 22nd. Apparently it’s not quite ready for use yet but it could start any day. Or it may not. You may remember that the Register & Bee tried a paywall system out before in their Media General ownership days and that was quickly scrapped. There was an easy way to work around that paywall system and there will probably be another easy way to get around this one that’s started but hasn’t started but could start if you buy the newspaper that you really didn’t want but you had to buy to get… oh I give up.<\/p>\n

This is going to be hilarious when their pageviews plummet and advertisers don’t get the results they’ve been previously getting from their banner ads. SouthsideCentral is making the transition to have advertisers (but there won’t be anything obnoxiously flashing and popping up) and we’ll be glad to offer the GoDanRiver advertisers a lot more value for their money. Our readers aren’t going to have to pay to read our content and our readership numbers continues to grow.<\/p>\n

Hmm. Come to think of it, I now highly endorse the Register & Bee’s idea of putting in a paywall. It’s going to be great for our<\/em> business.<\/p>\n

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It’s going to cost you to read yesterday’s news at GoDanRiver. Again.<\/p>\n

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