This week’s Media Briefing looks at whether the era of quietly charging subscribers different prices for the same news subscription may be coming to an end, as a lawsuit over “surveillance pricing” and new legislation in New York put publishers’ subscription pricing tactics under fresh scrutiny.
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WTF is “surveillance pricing”?
Publishers may advertise a single subscription price on their websites, but in practice subscribers pay a range of prices due to promotional, introductory and retention discounts. Now some of the tactics behind those prices could be challenged by recent legislation in New York.
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