New York Times to build Pay Wall?
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It looks as though the New York Times is joining the Rupert Murdoch No News is Free News movement.
According to “internal sources”, it “seems to have settled on a system” to “make New York Times content available on a paid basis”, says ReadWriteWeb.
An announcement to that effect could be made “within days, announced within weeks, and executed in a few months,” says the story.
“This decision would be a landmark in the ongoing cultural debate on whether online content should be free or not and could represent another fundamental shift in how users expect to access and consume news, depending on which news organizations follow suit”, it says.
And if the Grey Lady does indeed take that route, it’ll end up “parallel to the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the Financial Times,” says the story, going on:
“NPR’s membership system, the WSJ’s walled-garden system – which left some parts of the site free and others available only to paying subscribers – and the Financial Times’ system of metered access, with a certain amount of free content allowed per user, were reportedly considered by the NYT, doubtless the nation’s flagship newspaper.”
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corpse lost lost $3.4 billion in the year to the end of June, p2pnet posted in the summer of 2009, going on:
“And now he expects you to pay for it.
‘News Corp is set to start charging online customers for news content across all its websites,’ says the BBC under the headline ‘Murdoch signals end of free news’.”
It may be the end of free korporate newz a la Murdoch, we noted, but “the online world will continue to keep itself up to date without any help from him — and for free.”
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ReadWriteWeb – New York Times to Charge for Online Content?, January 17, 2010
lost $3.4 billion – News is NOT free: Murdoch, August 6, 2009
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