Compañeros,
Are we any closer to getting terms for institutional subscription for any of
these on-line papers? El País for one is still offering only individual
subscription, apart from an extremely restricted group subscription clearly
aimed at businesses, too limited and too expensive for academic use. The
work-around in our case is that I have taken out an individual sub myself
(funded by my university), but my students have no direct access at all,
effectively preventing them from using the on-line newspaper as a learning
resource. Apart from anything else this seems to be an extremely
short-sighted business model - our students after all are the potential
readers & subscribers of the future.
What I am looking for is a model that allows (say) a University to subscribe
on behalf of all of its members, who would then be able to freely access the
site. Is this type of model available anywhere for any on-line paper (in any
language)?
I asked this question a year ago, and got no reply from El País, and
sympathy but no hard information from members of this forum. Do we know any
more now? What avenues can we use to press publishers to change their
subscription policies?
Un saludo muy frustrado,
Michael
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Michael Shade
School of Languages
University of Brighton
Falmer, Brighton BN7 1BY, UK
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> From: West, Geoff
> Reply To: West, Geoff
> Sent: Monday, March 1, 2004 17:38 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FW: one more Spanish-language daily to charge....
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> Apologies for any cross-posting.
>
> Geoff West
> Hispanic
> BL London
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gayle Williams [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 01 March 2004 17:20
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> Subject: Fwd: one more Spanish-language daily to charge....
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> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:40:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: Adan Griego <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Adan Griego <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: one more Spanish-language daily to charge....
>
> More the a year ago, Madrid's dialy El Pais, probably the best
> Spanish-language daily, decided to charge for it's online content, so did
> Barcelona's La Vanguardia.
>
> That left EL Mundo, a close competitor and the conservative ABC.
>
> As of today, El Mundo is also charging for its online content. ABC is
> still available.
>
> This is certainly appears to be a trend. Last year, Mexico's REFORMA
> also starting charging. That leaves, SO FAR, Mexico's La Jornada and El
> Universal as well as Clarin and La Nacion in Buenos Aires, along with a
> few others in the largest cities.
>
> So much for free online content.
>
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