Maintaining the pretense of objective journalist integrity by reporting in third-person upon itself, the Wall Street Journal claims that “according to a person familiar with the matter,” they’ll be charging you $17.99 a month to read on your iPad.
That’s ten bucks less than a monthly subscription costs… but that’s still a hefty price tag for digital content. My gut instinct is that only existing Wall Street Journal subscribers would be tempted by an annual $216 subscription… it’s not a price point that is going to attract new customers. That multimedia content better snap. What do you think?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
18 responses to “Wall Street Journal to Charge $17.99 Monthly Subscription on iPad”
Do not understand why it is so expensive to get subscription on the I-Pad. I believe the monthly subscription should run around 10 bucks. How much more is WSJ paying to have the electronic version delivered to customers. I believe it is an apple thing. WSJ wants to make as much money as possible by utilizing the I-Pad but they must realize that we are smart individuals. WSJ can keep their high price subscription. I will find alternate means for news.