There is easy solution for this: syndication/bundling.
1) You subscribe only NYT for $221.00/year
2) You subscribe NYT with digital syndication bundle for $521 and you get unlimited access to NYT and all other papers, including all local papers. The extra $300 is divided between papers according to the articles this subscriber reads from other sources.
It is amazing to me that this concept, syndication of subscribers, is completely unexplored at this late date and after such carnage in the industry.
There have been dozens or hundreds of content syndication efforts, all failures, but no one is doing the obvious thing for customer experience and syndicating their subscription.
Can anyone in the business (which I used to be in back in the early 2000's) explain this?
1) You subscribe only NYT for $221.00/year
2) You subscribe NYT with digital syndication bundle for $521 and you get unlimited access to NYT and all other papers, including all local papers. The extra $300 is divided between papers according to the articles this subscriber reads from other sources.