My review of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within dated 9 Feb...*click*
This linking to my reviews won't last much longer. Come mid-March, SPH, in order to milk readers, will implement a subscription charge for all readers of its online version. Well done. So now there's no way to get "news that matters" unless you can pay. And also that everyone will have to pay to read my reviews. Does this mean I will get paid more?
In essence, I can't hyperlink to my reviews anymore for readers out there unless you are a paid subscriber.
Here's an excerpt from their "dear cashcow, here's why we need you to pay" email:
We believe that we have a good and valuable product that users will want to pay for. It's also not a tenable business model to charge for the print edition of the newspaper and not for its online edition.
You will want to know whether you will get anything more, now that you have to pay.
The answer is yes.
You will notice that up till now, you get only three reports from Life! and Sunday Life through the week. If you subscribe, all the showbiz gossip and lifestyle features you see in the print edition of Life will be available online.
The weekly tech magazine Digital Life is available online now but a day after its print edition goes out with the newspaper. If you subscribe, Digital Life and the health magazine Mind Your Body -- now not online -- will become available from 6am on the same day they are distributed with the newspaper. The fashion magazine Urban will also go online, but later this year.
All news reports in the Money section will be available from 6am daily, instead of 6pm.
The last perk is that the archive will grow from the current three-days to seven-days. This means you can search back a week's worth of STI editions.
The above extras are what you will get if you take up a subscription, in addition to what STI currently offers -- ST print edition news, current day breaking news, webspecials and photo features.
From March 15 onwards, the site will become a subscribers-only website. Your subscription will take effect in April.
We hope you will stay with us. STI aims to continue being your link to news on Singapore, the region and the world.
So even if I have subscribed to the Print edition, I'll need to pay for the online edition? Well that sux. One way is to scan my review and put it up but that's gonna be a huge drag on my server space. This is really a step backwards for all...just for a measly $12 a month? I'd rather get a hardcopy paper then...at least I've got something to wrap rubbish, line the birdcage (I don't have a bird at the moment) and make my own kitty litter (I don't have a cat yet either).
I apologise to all trees out there, I've tried to save you as much as I can but this is just so not worth it.
This linking to my reviews won't last much longer. Come mid-March, SPH, in order to milk readers, will implement a subscription charge for all readers of its online version. Well done. So now there's no way to get "news that matters" unless you can pay. And also that everyone will have to pay to read my reviews. Does this mean I will get paid more?
In essence, I can't hyperlink to my reviews anymore for readers out there unless you are a paid subscriber.
Here's an excerpt from their "dear cashcow, here's why we need you to pay" email:
We believe that we have a good and valuable product that users will want to pay for. It's also not a tenable business model to charge for the print edition of the newspaper and not for its online edition.
You will want to know whether you will get anything more, now that you have to pay.
The answer is yes.
You will notice that up till now, you get only three reports from Life! and Sunday Life through the week. If you subscribe, all the showbiz gossip and lifestyle features you see in the print edition of Life will be available online.
The weekly tech magazine Digital Life is available online now but a day after its print edition goes out with the newspaper. If you subscribe, Digital Life and the health magazine Mind Your Body -- now not online -- will become available from 6am on the same day they are distributed with the newspaper. The fashion magazine Urban will also go online, but later this year.
All news reports in the Money section will be available from 6am daily, instead of 6pm.
The last perk is that the archive will grow from the current three-days to seven-days. This means you can search back a week's worth of STI editions.
The above extras are what you will get if you take up a subscription, in addition to what STI currently offers -- ST print edition news, current day breaking news, webspecials and photo features.
From March 15 onwards, the site will become a subscribers-only website. Your subscription will take effect in April.
We hope you will stay with us. STI aims to continue being your link to news on Singapore, the region and the world.
So even if I have subscribed to the Print edition, I'll need to pay for the online edition? Well that sux. One way is to scan my review and put it up but that's gonna be a huge drag on my server space. This is really a step backwards for all...just for a measly $12 a month? I'd rather get a hardcopy paper then...at least I've got something to wrap rubbish, line the birdcage (I don't have a bird at the moment) and make my own kitty litter (I don't have a cat yet either).
I apologise to all trees out there, I've tried to save you as much as I can but this is just so not worth it.
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