Posted on 09/18/2007 2:17:09 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
The New York Times has decided to end its Times-Select subscription service, a move that will make its top columnists and newspaper archives free on the newspaper’s website.
The decision, which will take effect at midnight on Monday, is an acknowledgment by senior management that the company stands to earn more money through advertising sales from increased traffic on its website than it did by asking readers to pay a fee for its premium content.
“The big thing that has happened really is that ... search has been far and away more than anyone imagined such a massive driver of traffic,” said Vivian Schiller, a senior vice-president at NYTimes.com.
The Wall Street Journal is also expected to re-examine the subscription model for its website following its acquisition by News Corp.
Still too expensive...
They’d have to pay me to read their crap.
Now “All the News That Fits” is free!
NY Times to drop charges for website...
the reason is the nyslimes are making bundles from moveon.org ads!!!
I think the NYT almost singlehandedly brought bugmenot into existence in the early days of the web.
Why read the N.Y. Times?
If I want to be fed lies, I’ll just listen to anything the Clintons say.
They have a website?
Great. We can go back to posting Mo Dowd columns with CZJ pictures.
Can’t wait not to care
THE new york times pulling out all the stops for the election.
I guess I could use a free laugh every now and then.
Next month’s lead: “NYT to pay people to read its drivel”
Having to watch the final days at the Slimes and their vapid comments that now we can access Dowd and the other boozy broads and boys makes me yawn, they have become a joke and now an object of pity/s/. Oh well, who cares, the demise of just another communist organization with an attitude is becoming a happy bore. Anyone like to place a bet on how much longer they gasp then sink under the waves.
The decision, which will take effect at midnight on Monday...
Hurry, log on while you can still pay for this $hit!
Oh goodie, now I can read MoDo’s column.......nah.
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