A digital subscription $ 30 a month, and a site to read free of charge two items every two months. On paper, the Boston Globe meets all the criteria for flee users. And yet. This local daily newspaper, the most important of all the New England coastal region stretching to the borders of New York to that of Canada), has surpassed in November the symbolic milestone of 100,000 subscribers purely digital.

all In all, the subscriptions contributed to 80 % of digital revenue from the newspaper. And the whole subscriptions, print and Web, covers the salaries of the editorial

"40% of these subscribers are from the area but do not live in Boston," said Esfand Pourmand, head of product, at the conference Wan-Ifra on digital subscriptions held Friday in Paris. In total, the subscriptions contributed to 80 % of digital revenue from the newspaper. And the whole subscriptions, print and Web, covers the salaries of the editorial staff.

The Boston Globe is an anomaly in the landscape of the american press. This daily, which are not intended to be national, instead of the New York Times and Washington Post , is the ...