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Good Riddance: Times Select Dies a Glorious Death
September 17, 2007 |
Tomorrow, the New York Times will stop charging for its Times Select service. It will also stop charging for access to its historical database. Good for their columnists who now don’t just labor in darkness anymore.
Of course, all of this is (almost) according to the evil masterplan the NYT had hatched out:
The newspaper said the TimesSelect project had met expectations, drawing 227,000 paying subscribers — out of 787,000 over all — and generating about $10 million a year in revenue.
“But our projections for growth on that paid subscriber base were low, compared to the growth of online advertising,” said Vivian L. Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of the site, NYTimes.com.
This leaves the Wall Street Journal as the only major newspaper to still charge of access of its content (well, the Willimantic Chronicle still charges for access, too).
Update: Some blog reactions: Recovering Journalist, Mark Evans, mathewingram.com/work, UMBC eBiquity, CNET News.com and Silicon Alley Insider
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