I previously mentioned that I probably wouldn’t be subscribing to the NYT, as the prices are fairly inflated compared with other digital subscriptions. A couple additional thoughts:
I’m surprisingly satisfied with the BBC iPhone app. It’s completely replaced the NYT as my mobile news source, and with a few exceptions (mostly the op-eds), it’s been just a good.
I’m a little annoyed that individual blog posts count as articles on the NYT site. Some of the blogs I follow have as many as ten posts a day. If I read them all, I hit the maximum number of 20 articles/month within two days. This is causing me to (grudgingly) rethink my decision about whether or not to subscribe. I’m well aware that that’s the point, and that it worked, but I’m still annoyed. It’s fairly unprecedented to charge for access to blogs.
So I looked into subscription options again, and learned that I would need to pay $3.75/week for access to the website and phone app, or $8.75 for access to the website, phone app, and reader. Then I found something interesting. Home delivery customers receive access to all digital content for no additional charge. The cheapest home delivery option in Boston is to receive the Sunday paper for $3.70/week. So with Sunday delivery, access to all three formats is less than half the price than it is otherwise. And I like the idea of getting a Sunday paper.
This coupled with the fact that I can no longer read some of my favorite blogs is tempting me to subscribe. I’m not there yet, but getting closer.