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Dow Jones is Starting to Tick me Off!
By JLP | January 9, 2006
I just tried to log into my Barron’s account and found out that they now have another required subscription to access Barron’s. What a freakin’ joke!
UPDATE: George from FatPitchFinancials asked me to clarify in the comments so I’ll do it here.
In the past, a subscription to the Wall Street Journal Online included Barron’s Online. Although I subscribe to the paper edition of the WSJ I signed up for the Wall Street Journal Online to get access to Barrons. It cost me something like $39 per year when I started (which has since gone up to $49 per year for print subscribers).
Now Dow Jones is forcing people to pay a separate subscription price in order to get access to Barron’s Online. Of course they are trying to entice current WSJ subscribers by offering them a special $20 sign-up price (for a limited time).
I have always liked the Wall Street Journal but now I’m starting to wonder if it is worth it. A year’s subscription to the print edition is $215 (they keep raising the price). If you subscribe to the print edition you can get a subscription to WSJ Online for $49 per year. Now they want to charge $79 per year for Barron’s Online ($39 if you subscribe to the print edition of Barron’s which is $149 per year). I just don’t think it is worth it.
I don’t think traditional media gets it. They are hurting right now because subscribers are dropping off, and ad revenue is down. So, what do they do? RAISE THEIR PRICES! That just doesn’t make sense to me.
Topics: Miscellaneous | 5 Comments »
January 9th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
What do you mean? I was just about to get an online subscription to Barron’s. What’s this new requirement? DCan you still get Wall Street Journal Online and get access to Barron’s?
January 9th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
I have an online WSJ subscription, and when I went to access Barron’s they want more money.
I am getting to the point where I will probably cancel my subscription. It’s not like I read it every day anyhow. They keep raising prices, when the are so many other good/free sources competing for my attention. If they keep this up, they will make themselves irrelevant as less people pay attention to what they have to say.
January 10th, 2006 at 2:51 am
I’m an online subscriber to the WSJ. In december DJ sent an email telling me that records (!) show them that I access mainly Barrons (which is not true). So from january 8 they will consider me a Barrons subscriber. But they have a marvellous offer: for only 20$ I can access again the WSJ, too.
I told them that I will have none of this, but since yesterday I can’t access the Journal.
I think they try to teach me, that I really don’t need another financial paper besides the FT.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:13 am
I suggest contacting the WSJ and complain. I plan to as I noticed the online WSJ sub fee has gone from $79 to $99. If the WSJ becomes irrelevant I’d rather it be because we complained and they didn’t listen.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:18 am
WSJ is angering millions of customers in a stupid move that could cost them a lot of money. I sugest we file a complaint with the FTC
https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01
It smells class action..