Showing posts with label newspaper paywalls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspaper paywalls. Show all posts

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist; Portland Press Herald, June 20, 2025

Skyler Cummings, Portland Press Herald ; Portland author has collected his dream library of books – and most of them don’t exist

Hemingway’s missing novel. Alice’s backwards-printed book in "Through the Looking Glass." Sylvia Plath’s never-finished autobiography. Reid Byers owns copies of all those "invisible" books that bibliophiles wish were real.

[Kip Currier: Portland Press Herald is another example of a newspaper with an iron-clad paywall that doesn't provide access to even one sentence from this article. Just the headlines. 

If you're trying to attract new readers and subscribers to a communication medium that's hemorrhaging people who see its value, you might want to offer a glimpse of what your product looks and sounds like.]