When’s the last time you bought a book or newspaper and read only about two or three pages of it?
Like most people, I subscribe to the newspaper here in Raleigh — weekends only, although they still deliver everyday (they’d probably lose more money from ad circulation if they didn’t).
A daily subscription to the paper will cost you about $150 a year, or $12 a month. I’m not sure what the circulation is, but I know in my neighborhood just about every has a paper in their driveway in the morning. And I’m guessing a lot of them are like me and only read bits and pieces of it.
So why won’t people pay $5 or $10 a month to read a good blog?
Kazakhstan is not too happy with Borat:
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.
It’s basketball season!
Good news: new freshman to make fun of (read: Tyler Hansbrough and Josh McRoberts to name a few).
Bad news: This is JJ’s last season.
Miami resident Jon Jacobs paid $100,000 for a piece of property and hopes to:
…hire famous disc jockeys to entertain visitors once a week or so at the resort but still reckons on netting $20,000 a month from the hunting tax and other income.
“I want to operate this thing at the level of a major nightclub in a major city,” Jacobs said.
But the property Jacobs bought doesn’t actually exist. It’s part of an online game called Project Entropia.
He refinanced his house shortly after and considered investing some of the cash in the hot Miami real-estate market, but he realized that if he bought a rental property, it really wouldn’t generate any income beyond what he’d pay for the mortgage and repairs.
So he invested the proceeds in the game.
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