Sunday, May 4, 2008

No One Subscribing to Ireland.com

I was interested to hear Geraldine Kennedy remark that Ireland.com only has between 8,000 and 10,000 paying subscribers and that it was "struggling to break even". I must say I was rather surprised that such a long-running service was attracting such few numbers.
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2 comments:

Des said...

I'm surprised that there are still that many folk paying for the service...

May 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Anonymous said...

If you want news you can just checkout the google news page for free. The only reason to subscribe to a particular paper online (be it the Irish times or otherwise) is if you are writing an essay and think that quoting from a recognised paper adds some respectability. But as most Irish colleges have an IP range subscription to the IT this is rarely a problem

May 5, 2008 at 3:01 PM

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