Note, I *paid* online – but they’re going to deliver to me in dead tree format.

I am willing to pay for access for high-quality news and entertainment – which I don’t get from most media outlets.

Although I’d love to see Private Eye have a decent website, perversely, I’d be less inclined to pay for it. The joy of the web is sharing content – whether it’s a link to a story or a video on YouTube. Once you put a paywall there, it kills sharing.

I can see a version of Slashdot’s subscriber system working for a magazine like Private Eye. Subscribers get to see, say, a week in to the future. Add in features like only letting paid subscribers comment etc and it *could* work.

Would emailing me a PDF every fortnight be cheaper than running a printing press? Although the information contained within is the same, is it as valuable to me?