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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This is just going to hasten their decline, even though it’s meant to forestall it. It’s sad seeing the other businesses they try to promote in their print edition to try and earn back money some other way that they’ve been increasingly losing from declining circulation - selling old, framed photographs, New York memorabilia, seminars, etc.
>>The LA Times used to throw papers in every driveway to convince their advertisers they had circulation that justified the charge for the adds.<
LOL! It’s still happening here in L.A. My neighbor just asked me who’s LAT is on the pavement because no one picks up the LAT newspapers for the past 2 weeks (he wants to read the business section but never the news).
Even for free the NYT is too expensive. The only reason I would sign up for this is to get the pleasure out of canceling it.
The New York Times has a website?
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