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Pr. Jae said:
Do tell.
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I've seen yours, Jae. It's articles from a variety of sources. No doubt the owners of paper.li collect income through the click-throughs. There's not a shred of content that I can't get elsewhere and certainly nothing frighteningly original. It's redistributing content, not producing it. Sure, it's a nice way to put out a "paper" and get some views and, apparently from the raft of articles on the subject, make some money. By all means, go for it. Just don't expect me to read it.

But to compare it to a blog likes Graeme's is like comparing Reader's Digest to The New Yorker. Graeme is putting out original content with some thought behind it, not regurgitating what someone else already wrote. His newspaper reading is research to inform that writing, not to just recirculate. I respect that, even if I don't always agree with Graeme on most issues.
 
Mendalla said:
But to compare it to a blog likes Graeme's is like comparing Reader's Digest to The New Yorker. Graeme is putting out original content with some thought behind it, not regurgitating what someone else already wrote. His newspaper reading is research to inform that writing, not to just recirculate. I respect that, even if I don't always agree with Graeme on most issues.
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Ah, okay. If he's putting out original content (he didn't state that he is but I'll take your word on it), that's certainly commendable. I personally have both a paper.li, and my own blog on which I publish original content. The value of a paper.li is that gathers together news from various sources on related topics. I do think paper.lis focused on topics of interest to me are worth the browsing.
 
BethAnne said:
Yes, I charge for the mailed subscriptions and ads....if the paper is picked up it is free and it is free online.
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So you take in money from selling subscriptions but you don't share any of that money with those who actually give submissions to the paper. That's pretty interesting. If it was my paper, I'd want to share with those who make the paper possible. But to each their own.
 
Pr. Jae said:
So you take in money from selling subscriptions but you don't share any of that money with those who actually give submissions to the paper. That's pretty interesting. If it was my paper, I'd want to share with those who make the paper possible. But to each their own.
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Subscriptions are strictly cost-recovery...Canada Post gets all the money. Ads cover the printing and other expenses.
 
Well, you could run a series of my photos of me as Tarzan.
The modern newspaper, which began about 1890, has always been dishonest, and essentially a propaganda device - starting with the farce of making Baden-Powell a hero at Mafeking. The only thoroughly honest paper I know is Haaretz. Then The Guardian (which is slipping) and then Al Jazeera. this is not just my opinion. I know many journalists who are devastated by the low quality of our newspapers.
If you ever want something for you paper, just let me know what you want - and the length.
 
BethAnne said:
Subscriptions are strictly cost-recovery...Canada Post gets all the money. Ads cover the printing and other expenses.
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Why don't you increase the cost of subscriptions and advertisements so you can make a profit as well as pay your writers?
 
Pr. Jae said:
Why don't you increase the cost of subscriptions and advertisements so you can make a profit as well as pay your writers?
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Because then the local groups and small businesses I cater to wouldn't be able to afford to advertise...and every time Canada Post increases the postal rates I lose more subscribers - and subscriptions aren't my focus anyway.
 
BethAnne said:
Because then the local groups and small businesses I cater to wouldn't be able to afford to advertise...and every time Canada Post increases the postal rates I lose more subscribers - and subscriptions aren't my focus anyway.
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If they can't afford it then lose them and get bigger advertisers. Really, you should hire me as your Marketing Director. I'll settle for $40,000. for the first year.
 
Pr. Jae said:
If they can't afford it then lose them and get bigger advertisers. Really, you should hire me as your Marketing Director. I'll settle for $40,000. for the first year.
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Then I'm not helping the local business owners - I am in a rural setting! And I'm not a "newspaper" in the traditional sense but more of a community bulletin board with some ads and unique content included.
 
Well, you can always run interesting photos - you know, a full page spread like the Sunshine girl - or whatever she's called in one of the cheap, Toronto papers. Or a full page spread of somebody really ugly or grotesque as the freak of the week. Or an advice column for the ordinary man with items like "How to pick your nose so nobody notices."
 
BethAnne said:
Then I'm not helping the local business owners - I am in a rural setting! And I'm not a "newspaper" in the traditional sense but more of a community bulletin board with some ads and unique content included.
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I've seen such papers when I've been in cottage country and near various campsites. I actually think they do a great service for local businesses. Props to you BethAnne.
 
Pr. Jae said:
I've seen such papers when I've been in cottage country and near various campsites. I actually think they do a great service for local businesses. Props to you BethAnne.
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Thanks...and I'm 32 pages each issue which is a bit more than most of the others.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Do tell.
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As pre fixed Jae ... you couldn't accept things strange to yah ... thus denial of learning outside things ...

Sad thing is this attitude is contagious in the human barrel of mon KISS ... they miss the duality and multitudes that are out there ... an eternal etude?
 
You know it's humid when you step from an air conditioned car of building and your glasses fog up. Kind of the reverse of what happens in winter (when they fog up going from the cold dry outside to the warm, moist inside).
 
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