Would You Pay for This? New York Post Redesigns Website

by Glynnis MacNicol | 6:47 am, September 8th, 2009

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I have always suspected the reason the New York Post‘s website was so impossible to navigate was part of Rupert Murdoch‘s secret (and admittedly brilliant) plan to keep people buying the print version. Not so it seems! The brand new NYP.com website was unveiled yesterday, and proves to be measurably more manageable than the unwieldy beast that preceded it. Two questions remain: The Post is the perfect subway paper, until the MTA is wired (and considering the economy it may, thankfully, be a while) why would anyone read it online. And two: If Rupe’s plan to make you pay for all his online pubs actually proves to be more than talk, is this something you’d be willing to shell out for?

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Bobbi

You’d read it online if you are disabled thus preventing you from getting out of the house to buy it AND you live in a remote part of NJ that they don’t do home delivery in! I know because that’s my situation. They’ll deliver to the general store less than two miles from my house but not to me.

You may not be aware of it, but the NY Post already has a paid option. When we moved here and discovered that they wouldn’t deliver, my husband, as a treat to me and knowing how much I enjoyed reading the Post everyday, paid for the online option for me. It is presented in the paper’s actual daily form, so I turn pages, see all the ads and so on. I absolutely love it and read it every morning with my cup of tea. Maybe with this new site, we won’t continue paying but I’ll have to see how easy it is to navigate first.