Sunday
Jan222012
thespec.com limits their page views to 35 per month.
The Hamilton Spectator is now asking readers to subscribe to their online product thespec.com. As of now you can read up to 35 pages for free but after that they ask you to pay for a subscription of $6.95 per month or $2.95 for print subscribers.
Does this effect you? Will this change your habits from reading thespec.com?
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 9:13PM
Reader Comments (2)
Will go elsewhere for my news. The Spectator doesn't really have anything fascinating that you can't find somewhere else.
Each redesign or 'overhaul' of the Spectator puts it closer to the Metroland Community Paper it's become and further from the informative daily it once was. I've been a daily subscriber for 20 years and remain so only for the local news - features and national or global news are much better in the other paper I subscribe to. As a lower city resident, I have no free version of a 'Mountain News or Stoney Creek News".
Now, in addition to the $20 per month I already pay, I will need to add to that to access the same news online? thespec.com never really 'got' the internet thing. Their site has, in my opinion, always been weak and they've never managed to accomplish what it should be. Charge paper subscribers MORE?!!! Dumb move.