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I would not pay 1p per year for the pun or the fail never mind £2.00 per week.

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Seconded.

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They'll all end up doing it, hard copy sales of all printed media have been declining steadily since about 1999.

I've worked in Newspaper/Magazine Wholesaling since 1988, the traditional format Newspaper/Magazine is pretty much extinct. Publishers have to make up that revenue loss in the areas that are now active.

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People will just look elsewhere.

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Anyone gone behind the wall at The Sun yet then?

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Pity they haven't put the paper version behind a great big wall too...

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No and that ain't going to change Damien.

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Nope. I do pay for the Tele though.

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Yeah I am on The Telegraph and The Times ones but I wondered if The Sun had done any major redesign of their site since it was pretty poor before..The Telegraph always seems to forget me as well...

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Well, you have to look hard to see past the nag banners but yes, they do seem to have spruced it up a bit.

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They need to put it behind the great wall of China along with that lying git Murdoch :)

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Murdoch's greed know no bounds

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Striker isn't behind the pay wall, hilarious, the one thing I'd actually pay to read...

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They could do that, and some will pay.

But Sun readership ( please shout if I have got it wrong) is not exactly people who enjoy paying for something, they can get free elsewhere online.

So I see the sun failing. You can see page 3 anywhere (and no, i don't go looking, did that when younger for novelty, got boring after awhile :D)

There news content doesn't seem to be great (not read it in a few decades, perhaps it has become more broadsheet?)

Sport may be good (still not read it), but you can get that anywhere. Rumours are dime a dozen

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I don't think expect people to pay for a product that costs to produce is greedy. Murdoch may well be greedy and I am certainly no fan but the newspaper business is not one for making large profits and he subsidies papers for the most part as it's a struggling industry.

If we don't want a world of Huffington Posts then we need to start going back to the idea that journalism isn't free.