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...business from the new-media reality. I have some good news to report. It's true that as long as we in the media ask you to read our stuff on your computer screens, you won't pay for it. But if we deliver that content for a small fee on devices that can surpass the pleasures of reading on paper, you will. So the really pressing question is, Can the technology for such e?reading devices be developed and made more widely available in time to save my profession? The answers are more surprising - and exciting - than you might...
...Currently a few newspapers, most notably the Wall Street Journal, charge for their online editions by requiring a monthly subscription. When Rupert Murdoch acquired the Journal, he ruminated publicly about dropping the fee. But Murdoch is, above all, a smart businessman. He took a look at the economics and decided it was lunacy to forgo the revenue - and that was even before the online ad market began contracting. Now his move looks really smart. Paid subscriptions for the Journal's website were up more than 7% in a very gloomy 2008. Plus, he spooked the New York Times into dropping...
...Privately, BSF officers admit that the ban makes little sense; dozens of Indian citizens are killed every year while trying to earn the fee of about $22 for getting a cow across. (The animals can eventually be sold for as much as $900 each.) Legalizing the trade would reduce the border violence and open a new stream of tax revenue. But few on the border expect that to happen in a majority-Hindu country. "Which government is going to allow the export of cows for slaughter?" Mitra asks. "That would just be political suicide...
...think you've been wrongly charged for a piece of weighty baggage is to keep your cool. Don't lash out at the airline representative. You can ask to have your bag weighed on a different scale, but if you still get hit with a fee, pay it with a credit card, then call your credit-card company and let them know you plan to dispute the charge. You should also file a grievance with the airline...
...amendments at various stages and maybe other bodies to contact." In an audio clip, his colleague Lord Taylor tells an undercover reporter that "some companies that I work with would pay me ?100,000 a year" to facilitate meetings with decision-makers. When questioned by the reporter about that fee, Taylor says: "That's cheap for what I do for them. . .I am not exaggerating. It's whether I want to do it or not. You've got to whet my appetite, to get me to come on board...