Would you buy a newspaper, or just use their website? ie. The Indpendent

evil-monkey

Would you buy a newspaper, or just their website??

Take for example, the Independent. You can get everything in their website online for free.

So, who prefers which medium, and why??

Dodge

Prefer print versions. Handier. I work at a PC and try and and stay away from it as much as I can, whent not in work (as I type this at home...)

Try not to buy the Indo though

Sad Professor

I prefer print as well. I read articles online too but it's hard to relax in front of a computer screen.

Gekko

If you mean the London Independent, then I would read it online for free.

evil-monkey

Gekko wrote: »

If you mean the London Independent, then I would read it online for free.

i meant the Irish Independent...but I was just using that as an example as I use independent.ie every now and then. Question applies to papers generally, well, all those with a website equivalent...

Xavi6

I used to buy the West Australian every day but now I just read it online. Online is great for breaking news updates so I'd log in every hour or so to see what's happening.

Nothing to do with it being easier to copy and paste though I swear!

meditraitor

During the week I would check out Independant online but and only buy it on a sunday really. Even if it wasnt available online I would only buy it on a Sunday.

peanuthead

Well, I read independent online for free. Also, when Im feeling like a bit of humour reading I read all them celebrity mags online too. I try to convince the other half to read buy and sell online too. To be honest, its better to read the hard copies, but I refuse to spend the money on them. Its a total waste. You would be amazed at how much you save.

peanuthead

actually the "you would be amazed at how much you save" is a bit OTT thinking about it now, but I mean, it is a waste

unreggd

peanuthead wrote: »

actually the "you would be amazed at how much you save" is a bit OTT thinking about it now, but I mean, it is a waste

Not really, average paper price is €1.50, and they're dailies = approx €525 a year

As for the Buy&Sell, thats different, they both have different ads


The thing I think is stupid is people who wont buy the compact Indo/ITimes if the broadsheet is sold out!
Oh no! The EXACT same paper, with picture exceptions in a much more convenient format, who who want that????

evil-monkey

unreggd wrote: »

Not really, average paper price is €1.50, and they're dailies = approx €525 a year

that's a handy sum. plus online news is current. printed news is often old news.

HalloweenJack

I use both. At college, the Irish Times website has full access so I can check up on it but I do like to hold a real paper and read it that way.

Darragh29

Good thread OP. Only a few weeks ago, I noticed that I was spending 25 Euro every Sunday morning when I went down to the shop for the usual bits and pieces.

I always got: Sunday Business Post, Sunday Independent,

To keep an eye on the local riff raff, I'd also get The Sunday World & Ireland on Sunday...

Now I read the Sunday Business Post & Sunday Independent online and dumped the other two...

Saving meself around 10-15 quid...

lady_j

I'm likely to read more if I have the physical paper in my hand, if reading on the net I tend to just click into one or two articles. I generally end up printing out any article of length anyway so I might as well just buy the paper!

Duiske

Back in the early 90's, copies of the daily indo were given away free in W.I.T.
Looking back on it, it was a great marketing ploy, as I've been buying it almost daily since then.
Only time I go to the website is if Google news throws up a link to it if I'm searching for a particular news item.

Have to admit though, I have been known to browse thru The Sun online when I'm bored. Stories like "Say farewell to Nicole's boobs" are just so thought provoking.

evil-monkey

do ye think it's bad for business from the point of the media groups?? ie; do you think it crossed their minds that people might use their websites instead of buying their papers?? in turn bringing down their print profitability?? or do the site revenues more than compensate for this??

Aidric

I find myself using online more and more. The only time i buy a paper now is on a Saturday and Sunday.

monkey9

Would much prefer the printed versions. I'd usually buy the Irish Times and the Guardian and read the Irish Independent online

If I can, I buy paper, but if I'm cash-strapped, I use my mobile phone to browse the pages.

INdo and Mirror are my news sources, Daily Mail is used as toilet paper.

juvenal

Personally I wouldn't line my dog's basket with the Irish Independent; I would only glance at it if it was lying in a waiting room/hotel and I wanted to pass a couple of minutes.

I rarely visit their site, usually only if I'm looking for some specific article.

The IT was a daily purchase in our house growing up, and as a result it's what all the children read. I subscribed to ireland.com for about five years before it went with the free model earlier this year, and yet would still buy the hard copy. I find irishtimes.com not quite as easy to navigate, but it also has a couple of nice changes.

When abroad I would usually buy the local broadsheet (SMH, The Age, NY Times, Wash Post, Globe & Mail etc), the IT if it's available, and The Guardian. If I were to calculate my total expenditure on newsprint media I think I'd feel sick, but I wouldn't change!

There's something about the experience of reading a newspaper in its original format; I don't think it's the same as reading it online, and I also find I miss out on articles when I'm reading online as it's easier to scan the page layout when you have it in your hands.

tinkletoes

I buy print during week no access to the internet during the week days.

Declan30

I would Read the Irish Examiner on line every day but would never buy the paper for some reason it just puts me off buying it when i look at the paper in the shops(strange i know)

condra

As long as bigotted Christian loonys like Mary Kenny are spreading insidious anti-atheist hate and deceptive lies across the pages, I won't be buying the Indo.

bealbocht

well, I hope all you hard copy buyers are recycling. Personally find it an awful waste of paper, for most, if not all newspapers.

most news papers have pretty good online versions, but you do miss out on much of the smaller bits and pieces/articles/notices that you get when you buy the hard copy.

Arathorn

womoma wrote: »

As long as bigotted Christian loonys like Mary Kenny are spreading insidious anti-atheist hate and deceptive lies across the pages, I won't be buying the Indo.

Ah but it helps to know your enemy, helps folr the counter attack. Why I browse foxnews.com from time to time

Passenger

Well I'd use The Irish Times website before I'd buy the paper as it's a nuisance to hold, especially in public transport/places.

r3nu4l

If I wanted to buy the Irish Times (yay!) or the Irish Independent (boo!) every day over here I'd have to go out of my way a little. So on a daily basis I use the Irish Times website and if I want to read total horsesh!t then I'll go to the Indo website.

I do however much prefer the print version of the Times but (as has been mentioned), it's rubbish for reading on public transport. So instead, I might go to Waitrose on a Saturday and buy the Irish Times, go home, have a cup of tea while I open it out on the kitchen table and have a read. I might even have RTÉ Radio 1 streaming over the internet in the background and, just for a minute, maybe only a few seconds, I'm back home again