El Pais and online newspaper subscriptions

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Hey, I'm thinking of plunking down 80 euros($100 dollars now?) for a 2 year subscription to El Pais, the Spanish newspaper I adoringly read daily during my time living in madrid. It's not available in san francisco. I dig the writing of El Pais and its socialist bent and if i made this purchase, i would also be actively maintaining my level of spanish.

Does anybody here actually pay for online subscriptions to newspapers and/or have opinions of El Pais? pros/cons, opinions appreciated.

― ela, Monday, 22 November 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.elpais.es/clientes/SuscripcionPortadaP1.html
does 80 euros sound like too much? do many other national papers do this?
elpais.es

― ela, Monday, 22 November 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like a fair enough deal, actually. You could probably get it through a distributor in the US, though. I'm surprised it's not available through a newsstand somewhere near you - there are a few of those places in Chicago. Also, major public libraries carry international papers.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

80 euros isn't that much for a year...other papers seem to let you read a lot more online without a suscription.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I like El País, it is the only newspaper in Spain that has the international news before the domestic news (in the print edition). I don't know whether I'd pay for it online though, when El Mundo is available free. OK, it is more rightwing, but if all you want is to maintain your Spanish, it should suffice. Also, they are more investigative. And I don't read the politics stuff anyway.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

good point. i had forgotten that el mundo is free. sure, it's a tad right wing and just plain sucks next to el pais, but i'll look at it now that i know it costs nothing to read online.

still, i think i'll eventually just buy the 1 year(plus another year, promotion, promotion) subscription to el pais for 80 euros. around 104 dollars now.

Euro 80.00 = 104.260 US dollars -holy fuck, that's what the exchange rate is now.
1 EUR = 1.30325 USD 1 USD = 0.767313 EUR

― ela, Monday, 22 November 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you tried http://www.bugmenot.com/ ?

It's worth a try...

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Some links to various online content (free) here:

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/languages/1-6-4-7.html

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugmenot.com doesn't work for El País, at least not after four tries.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

There's an article in today's Observer about how El Mundo is still trying to link the Madrid bombings to ETA. So perhaps it is worth spending 80 euros not to have to read that kind of tripe. The only good thing aboutt his is it will keep the PP out of power for a few more years.

Here is the article, I hope:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1361251,00.html

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 28 November 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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