{"id":7590,"date":"2012-01-10T09:12:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2012-01-10T10:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:55:02","slug":"on-the-cheap-barnes-noble-wants-to-sell-you-the-n-y-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/on-the-cheap-barnes-noble-wants-to-sell-you-the-n-y-times\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Cheap: Barnes & Noble Wants To Sell You The N.Y. Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a tempting offer: Barnes & Noble is offering a free Nook Simple Touch or a $99 Nook Color (the one that’s easily hacked into a tablet) if you subscribe to the New York Times<\/em> through them<\/a>. If you’re not much into hard news, they’re also offering the Nook Tablet for $199 (a $50 savings) when you get People Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Downside: My father would spend hours trying to figure out how to fold the darn thing.<\/p><\/div>\n

Personally, I follow the Times<\/em> Twitter feed for articles I’m interested in and my wife reads People.com on her iPad. I don’t think you can really get cheaper than those two options. However, if you’re someone who would rather buy either of these in dead tree form anyway, then it seems like a cheap way to get a tablet. One of the main reasons this caught my attention though is because of an old article from 2008<\/a>. In it, Business Insider<\/em> did the math and noted that it would actually be more cost-effective for the New York Times<\/em> to send every single subscriber a Kindle (costing $399 at the time) than to constantly send paper copies. How cost effective? It would be a good fifty percent cheaper.<\/p>\n

It looks like someone at B&N read the same article and managed to convince the upper echelons of the N.Y. Times<\/em> and People<\/em> to try it out. Could this start a trend in the Old Media world? It’s doubtful, but it’s worth watching. And hoping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a tempting offer: Barnes & Noble is offering a free Nook Simple Touch or a $99 Nook Color (the one that’s easily hacked into a tablet) if you subscribe to the New York Times through them. If you’re not much into hard news, they’re also offering the Nook Tablet for $199 (a $50 savings) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,512,1918,12],"tags":[34,1576,1577,452,2032,471,531,1578,2031,2030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7649,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions\/7649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}