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RE: In today's news: Paywalls Are Everywhere
Very entertaining my friend. I've never paid for any internet-based information of any type, and never will. Why would anybody, really, with the variety if places you can get news, and usually THE SAME NEWS you might have been considering paying for at a given site?
The WSJ is nuts. They must get only wealthy government insiders...
I haven't paid for anything, either. How could you possibly even pick one? I think the WSJ is the original paywall site. I remember a joke about it on an episode of The Office years ago. I think if you have a print subscription, it includes the digital subscription, so that's probably where many of them come from. Nothing screams "elite" more than a fresh copy of the WSJ sittin on your desk :P
I used to pay for Britannica and Questia. Questia was digitizing books and developed a reference library that was better than my local university. They were put under by Google Books. Britannica was swamped by Wikipedia.