Thursday, April 5, 2012

The cost of something that should be free online

Well I know that I don't normally use my blog as a bitch page any more (though I know that I did in the start for which I'm very sorry in doing so for those readers that had seen all of that), but in this case it happens to be very warranted, and here's why.
 
I currently right now have two papers coming into my email, and both of them were free once I signed up and started an account with them, The Fresno Bee, and the Arizona Republic. However when I tried to get two more papers coming into my e-mail I discovered that they wanted you to pay for the on line version of them, and that's all well and good if I was also getting the hard copy versions of both papers, however I live in a city that both of those papers don't come down to unless it happens to be through the mail. Those two papers are the Contra Costa Times, and the Brockton Enterprise (getting both of those would help me keep up with what was going on both in the Bay Area and back east where my family happens to live right now). However the problem is that I would need to get a subscription for both of them in order to get the digital versions of both of them.
 
Personally I don't honestly feel that that's right, but it doens't look like it will ever matter as to what I happen to think at all, which means that I can't keep up with what's going on in either area. Personally I think that happens to blow like crazy, but I also know that there's nothing I can do about it at all. Like I said I just wanted to bitch about this since I don't think that it's right to charge for the on line version at all.

--
Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
Dream World Blog (fictional): http://dreamersworld2016.blogspot.com/
Ninja Chronicles Blog (fictional): http://ninjachroniclesstories.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @timetracker2643

No comments:

Post a Comment