The Maui News regrettably has fallen off my reading list after erecting one of the higher paywalls in local media.
In my view at least, the newspaper’s subscription rates for digital only access are excessive.
Here are their digital plans. A 1-year subscription, the least expensive, costs $150.
Here are some comparisons. The Des Moines Register is $10 per month. The Denver Post’s digital replica edition costs $72 per year. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser charges mainland residents only $15 a year for a digital subscription, just 10% of the Maui News rate.
It seems to me that this isn’t going to allow the newspaper to tap into Maui’s strong visitor market.
It also cuts off those of us trying to get some idea of political and social issues in Maui County.
What’s the best way to keep up with Maui news now that the Maui News has priced themselves out of the market?
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the maui news just prints government and business press releases these days and you can get those for free from the county and chamber websites.
If it is the paper that I read in August while in Kihei for a week, there isn’t much substance..
The Maui News has been going down a path of destruction for years. They are largely irrelevant in today’s world. The problem is there is no one News source to fill in for their incompetence.
Alternative to The Maui News: http://mauinow.com/
I suggest moving to Kula and reading the NY Times…
Your friendly Kane’ohe public library subscribes to all the neighbor island newspapers. So when you go to Safeway or to the vet or Windward mall or campus events at WCC or City Mill or Panda or … etc. … make a stopover at the library. And don’t forget the “free” table of old but recent magazines contributed by library patrons and community groups, and the “honorback” carousel of free paperback books contributed by patrons … many wonderful things at the library.
I’d subscribe to Civil Beat, too if it didn’t cost $19.99 a month. But you can save 11 cents if you pay for a year up front.
Makes the Star Advertiser look like a bargain. I subscribe digital only with the replica and it works great. Saves me trips to recycle.
No worse than $240/year for Civil Beat.
Just saw this on Civil Beat:
In September, Civil Beat launched a partnership with The Huffington Post, creating HuffPost Hawaii.
There are many benefits to this partnership. From the national exposure to the work of our award-winning editorial teams — the collaboration presents local and national business opportunities.
The partnership allows Civil Beat to bring our content to a wider audience and we are changing our regularly priced subscription to $9.99 a month.
This rate reflects our continuing commitment to bring quality journalism to new audiences, while also adding new voices to the already robust conversations we see on civilbeat.com.
For those who have supported Civil Beat for the past three years, mahalo. For our new subscribers, welcome and thank you for the opportunity.
We subscribe to the (real) Star-Advertiser and get a free on-line subscription as well. However, I rarely read the digital version except for its Breaking News and sometimes the blogs & comments.
I cannot carry my MAC desktop around with me plus it’s too difficult read even for just a minute or two on my iPhone and iPad although I carry around a magnifying glass.
Reading a (real) paper or magazine is much easier than reading a digital version.
$10 for one article? Did David Black buy the Maui News? He makes a tidy living buying and killing newspapers.
Maui News management has been inept for quite some time. Rather than grow classifieds and other advertising on the internet, its answer is raise the subscription price to readers, thereby shrinking their reach. It’s on a downward spiral, like many newspapers who haven’t the creative talent to figure out how to compete with Craigslist.org, etc.