Posted on 03/17/2011 9:08:38 AM PDT by longtermmemmory
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times says it will start charging for access to its website and for the use of smart phone and tablet applications later this month in the U.S.
Beginning March 28, prices start at $15 for four weeks of full access to the website and the smart phone app.
Subscribers to the printed edition will keep free access to the website and apps. Others will be able to view 20 articles a month for free on the website and see the "Top News" section in the apps.
Newspapers are trying to increase digital revenue as online ad revenue, while growing, hasn't fully offset the declines in print.
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Don’t know about the rest of y’all...but the NYT couldn’t afford to pay me to visit their website OR take their birdcage liner.
“Subscribers to the printed edition will keep free access to the website and apps. Others will be able to view 20 articles a month for free on the website and see the “Top News” section in the apps.”
Dammit...still too much free access. I should have read the article first.
Make it $30 and they will get twice the revenue.
Exactly! Libs want free stuff. Everytime I head to a Starbucks no one buys it and is mostly scattered amongst the tables.
Why should I pay for anti-American propaganda when there are so many places on the web that will give me that for free?
Times Select was such a winner wasn’t it? Oh well, Paul Krugman, we hardly knew ye.
“Subscribers to the printed edition will keep free access to the website and apps. Others will be able to view 20 articles a month for free on the website and see the “Top News” section in the apps.”
Dammit...still too much free access. I should have read the article first.
The Dallas Mourning Snooze is too.
Why would anyone pay for this sludge?
So, what's wrong with that? That's how the entire print media existed for at least a century.
The only way itunes works is for the songs to be dirt cheep and have long term value.
Songs to have long-term value? You must be joking.
the NYT must be following the ZUNE model.
Wouldn't it be more logical to assume that NYTimes follows the Wall Street Journal model? That website has not been free for years now.
I guess several libs could subscribe as a group as share the password between themselves
$15.00 ? Nah, they’re going to have to add another zero if they expect me to read their crap. Oh...wait...you mean they want me to PAY THEM? Uh-huh.
But but but.. People have A RIGHT to be informed~!!
How dare they charge money for information.
Infomartion is inherently free and I demand that they respect our freedoms.
Don’t confuse me with facts about having to pay people so they can find news to report. They should do it for free~!
Like at the Huffington Post- we don’t want to write for that capitalist traitor sell-out any more.
Keep it Free For The Masses, NYT~!
Live up to the ideals you expect everyone else to live by.
>>...the entire newspaper industry is either going to have to follow suit or find something else to do.<<
That is true. And I think the answer is in the latter.
I remember back in the late 1990’s I was at my daughter’s jr high girls basketball practice and the kids had their portable cd players and there were dozens of cd’s strewn all over the bleachers while the teams were practicing. As I looked at all of these CD’s I noticed that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WAS HOME RECORDED. It was at that point that I realized the music industry was dead, and this was BEFORE napster.
I told my daughters right then and there that pre-recorded music was going to become the equivalent of the free toy in the happy meal. I think the newspaper industry has been up against this kind of challenge and is fighting tooth and nail for their “old world” paradigm just as the music industry is.
Sometimes, when Henry Ford comes out with a Model T, the buggy whip industry needs to change their business model - and product.
On a side note, I downloaded the movie “Joe” off torrent last night. I have not been able to find it anywhere before that.
Yes. And ask for a years worth in advance. They’ll be drowning in all that cheddar!
Make it $30 and they will get twice the revenue
How about a million? They could be rich
New York Times: “All the news that fit to spin”
If they had paying advertisers, they could give the paper away. The LA Times used to throw papers in every driveway to convince their advertisers they had circulation that justified the charge for the adds. I don't think it worked.
Think of all the unhappy birds in cages who will no longer have old copies of the NYT lining the bottom of their cages to poo upon. The huge manatee!!
Oh goody! D.E.D!
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