Home / Section: Newspaper industry
New York Times to begin charging access
Bill Keller, the executive editor at the New York Times, has announced that starting next year they will begin charging for “frequent” access to their website.
Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site.
But executives of The New York Times Company said they could not yet answer fundamental questions about the plan, like how much it would cost or what the limit would be on free reading. They stressed that the amount of free access could change with time, in response to economic conditions and reader demand.
© 2005 - 2010 The Daily Cartoonist.
14 queries in 0.351 seconds.
14 queries in 0.351 seconds.
Community Comments
Currently there are 3 Comments
Stay up-to-date on the comments by subscribing to the comments RSS feed.
January/20/2010
@ 2:52 pm
“Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site.”
uh, ya think? Finally a morsel of brilliant strategery, albeit in the final moments of battle.
January/20/2010
@ 5:39 pm
@ Steve
you can’t blame them for misunderestimating their opponents.
January/20/2010
@ 5:49 pm
Underestimating who exactly, I.D.? The online version of their newspaper is part of their own enterprise.
More and more people continue to receive their information online, as presumably less are getting it from the newspaper. If I were King for a day, I would make the online information the version that requires a fee, while making newspapers free to those with online accounts. Crazy!
“We have seen the enemy, and the enemy is us.”
-Walt Kelly
Join the discussion!
PLEASE NOTE: Please use your first AND last name when posting a comment. Please refrain from swearing. It's one of the rules that I enforce strictly. Thanks.
Want a cool icon next to your name? Go add one to Gravatar.com