Hearst Magazines Find Success Keeping Content Offline

New York Times:

Hearst Magazines, a unit of the Hearst Corporation, has repeatedly gone against the grain, from its traditional tight cost control in an often profligate business, to lagging years behind in building magazine Web sites, to recently raising prices and increasing the physical size of its pages. As part of a privately held company, Hearst does not report financial information, but indications are that its willingness to defy conventional wisdom has been working.

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Comments

[Mannock]

I am against their resistance to giving out free content. It disgusts me that I have to google a bit harder to find a suitably large picture of that Esquire cover with Megan Fox. DAAAMN YOU!!!! DAAAAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLL!!!!!

[Diogenis]

Sex and food on a cover sells . What a foolish Nation we are.

[DuPageDem]

What Luddites. How foolish of Hearst to presume payment for content could be a viable business model. Don't they understand that giving away your product & encouraging subscribers to flee is the only sure road to financial success?