Comments on: FT.com’s price hike http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/09/ft-coms-price-hike/ A slice of lime in the soda Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: KTodd http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/09/ft-coms-price-hike/comment-page-1/#comment-11894 KTodd Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:46:13 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=2537#comment-11894 I think you could probably maintain a separate blog about the bizarre behavior of the FT's online policies. Last year they put on a promotion for university students that allowed me a year's worth of premium online content in exchange for becoming a "fan" of FT on facebook. Of course, when the year's worth of free content was up and I was faced with the prospect of shelling out around $100 per year on top of my $200 yearly print subscription, I decided to take my web-news needs elsewhere. I would be interested to see how many print subscribers actually pay the additional fee for the online subscription. I think you could probably maintain a separate blog about the bizarre behavior of the FT’s online policies. Last year they put on a promotion for university students that allowed me a year’s worth of premium online content in exchange for becoming a “fan” of FT on facebook. Of course, when the year’s worth of free content was up and I was faced with the prospect of shelling out around $100 per year on top of my $200 yearly print subscription, I decided to take my web-news needs elsewhere. I would be interested to see how many print subscribers actually pay the additional fee for the online subscription.

]]> By: gstern http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/02/09/ft-coms-price-hike/comment-page-1/#comment-11887 gstern Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:55:02 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=2537#comment-11887 The Kindle sub price is going up too. This appeared in my inbox a couple days ago: As a Kindle subscriber to the The Financial Times, you might like to know of a price change. ffective February 6th, 2010 the price of The Financial Times has changed to $14.99/month for new subscribers. As an existing subscriber to The Financial Times you will continue to be billed at the previous rate of $9.99/month for one more year (until February 6th, 2011) after which you will be billed at the monthly rate then in effect. The Kindle sub price is going up too. This appeared in my inbox a couple days ago:

As a Kindle subscriber to the The Financial Times, you might like to know of a price change. ffective February 6th, 2010 the price of The Financial Times has changed to $14.99/month for new subscribers.

As an existing subscriber to The Financial Times you will continue to be billed at the previous rate of $9.99/month for one more year (until February 6th, 2011) after which you will be billed at the monthly rate then in effect.

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