AllisonK’s Comments

• Mar 15th, 2012 @ 11:27am

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  on Harper's Publisher Presents The Platonic Ideal Specimen Of The 'I'm An Old Fogey Elitist Anti-Internet Luddite' Columns
  Such a shame - Harper's often has really good content. I picked one up randomly at a train station once and was hooked. Too bad they're not giving more people a chance to discover that.
• Mar 24th, 2011 @ 8:00am

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  on On NYT Paywall, Citigroup says 'Good Buy'; Techdirt says 'Hello!?!'
  Agreed - I think this is the right interpretation of the analyst. Revenue from a subscriber would be higher than ad revenue per user, so the NYT would need fewer subscribers than it currently has consumers. No argument there. But how many people will sign up? No comment in the article - hopefully the analyst's report addresses that question!
• Mar 17th, 2011 @ 2:17pm

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  on It Took The NY Times 14 Months And $40 Million Dollars To Build The World's Stupidest Paywall?
  Judging by the fact that as of this morning it appeared that every link from their homepage was broken (wouldn't load in Chrome), the technology behind this should run seamlessly. I take it that is one of the remaining 200 glitches. I'll be interested to see if they have trouble with shifting customer expectations for reliability - if I'm paying for something that doesn't work, I'm mad.