Comments on: Pop-up Flash Advertising Killed the Newspaper Star http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/26/pop-up-flash-advertising-killed-the-newspaper-star/ Class Warfare and Video Games Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ted http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/26/pop-up-flash-advertising-killed-the-newspaper-star/comment-page-1/#comment-580 Ted Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:54:17 +0000 http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/?p=325#comment-580 We'll see if devices like the iPad, Joo Joo, and the Nook become more popular, newspapers may be able to sell subscriptions that are exclusive to those devices -while providing some free content on the Internet. Re: Radio ... commercial radio, for all its faults, has been free to use since the get go. Sure, you have to buy a radio, but you don't pay for the content. Public/community radio stations are the only ones that ask you to become a "member" so the content isn't shaped by an advertiser's preference. We’ll see if devices like the iPad, Joo Joo, and the Nook become more popular, newspapers may be able to sell subscriptions that are exclusive to those devices -while providing some free content on the Internet.

Re: Radio … commercial radio, for all its faults, has been free to use since the get go. Sure, you have to buy a radio, but you don’t pay for the content. Public/community radio stations are the only ones that ask you to become a “member” so the content isn’t shaped by an advertiser’s preference.

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