More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 days ago

    apparently nobody else has even bothered to try and mirror their formula.

    It isn’t that no one has tried, but Amazon has several anticompetitive policies in place that make it virtually impossible for anyone to compete with them.