New York Times Ends Its Paid Subscription Service

Mike writes "The New York Times has announced that it will end its paid Internet service in favor of making most of its Web site available for free. The hope is that this move will attract more readers and higher advertising revenue. 'The longer-term problem for publishers like the Times is that they must find ways to present content online rather than just transferring stories and pictures from the newspaper. Most U.S. news Web sites offer their contents for free, supporting themselves by selling advertising. One exception is The Wall Street Journal which runs a subscription-based Web site. TimesSelect generated about $10 million in revenue a year. Schiller declined to project how much higher the online growth rate would be without charging visitors.'"

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Re:Hope they open the archives

[EatHam]

As it is, they are a lovely working example of the power and value of the collective and proof that government can work. Republicans hate libraries.

Ah yes, and they also want to pave the streets with puppy blood instead of asphalt.

As it is, they are a lovely working example of the power and value of the collective and proof that government can work. Republicans hate libraries.

You may want to visit a library some time to do some research on what a library is. It's a community resource to be sure, but socialism? I mean, it's obvious from your post that you love both libraries and socialism (though one wonders if you were so well read, how would you become a socialist...), but really. Maybe you've just overdosed on some poetry books and are working through some hyperbole fetish?

Re:Great!

[gb506]

but Krugman's economic views are widely respected

you forgot the "/sarcasm" tag there, vtcodger.

Re:Hope they open the archives

[EatHam]

Orwell was pretty well read too, and he was a socialist to his dying day.

Orwell was known to only read fantasy though.