More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you’re just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.
@ProPublica@newsie.social is one good alternative.
As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.
This was the straw that finally got my wife to agree to let me cancel prime. I wanted to as soon as add were added to video. Sadly it auto renewed on the 10th of Oct :(
This exact thing happened to me. I cancelled anyway and they refunded most of the subscription fee. Just do it. Wish i could have told them why I was cancelling.
Al Jazeera for me, bby
The link’s not working
The link is for a Mastodon account:
WaPo - “Democracy dies in darkness”
Bezos - “I can deliver darkness to everyone in America in 2 days or less”
“We endorse Democrats! REJOICE!!!”
“We want to stay neutral! BURN THEM ALIVE!”
Can’t make this shit up…
WaPo editors wanted to endorse Harris.
Bezos, who is not an editor, forced them to remain neutral.
That’s a problem. People don’t subscribe to WaPo because they want to read Bezos’s thoughts.
The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
200,000 so far
Something darkly funny to me is all the people who work there whose job it is to grow subscribers seeing their last three years of hard work flushed down the drain on the whims of the owner.
I’d love to sit in on performance reviews for Q4’s end.
Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.”
Man, Trump is such a bad businessman that he kills other people’s companies as well.
Bezos is scared of Trump.
This is the reason. In our fucked up country, Trump, a rapist convicted felon, has a legitimate chance of winning the presidency.
Why is our country fucked up? Because you think we should be a one party system? The Left has been doing everything and anything to stop Trump from running for President. But that doesn’t matter right? I mean, isn’t that what it really comes down too? Every time I come on this site, it’s about “get rid of the Republicans!!!” For what? So we all vote ONE way and have ONE belief? Isn’t that was communism is?
AMAZON. FLEE AMAZON!!!
Finally got around to canceling my Prime membership. I’ve been relying on Amazon to get all the shit I can’t buy in person, but I’ll figure out some other way to get those.
You’re probably out of luck. I’ve been trying to avoid amazon for two years but all the other options suck. I’m constantly chasing missing orders and returning items because they’re just not as described.
Amazon revolutionised the customer experience and apparently nobody else has even bothered to try and mirror their formula.
apparently nobody else has even bothered to try and mirror their formula.
It isn’t that no one has tried, but Amazon has several anticompetitive policies in place that make it virtually impossible for anyone to compete with them.
Yeah unfortunately I live in a major city and every other retailer has trash delivery that costs an arm and a leg. I tried buying a few items from a store in my province, and shipping the items was more than the cost of the items. Even hot topic, I ordered a couple of t-shirts and a jacket and they wanted $50 for shipping across the city to me
Part of why they can absorb so many returns, unfortunately, is because of their sheer scale of business.
Now triple it and do the same to Amazon.
wow, that is significant.
Good to hear
Wow. A huge number.
I’m a little surprised to be honest.
The question is, can it grow to a point that will put a big enough dent in their profits to matter…
