NYT ready to limit on-line readers to 20 free articles per month

[marmar]

Letter to Our Readers: Times Begins Digital Subscriptions
Published: March 28, 2011


On Monday, The New York Times took a major step forward as we introduced digital subscriptions in the United States and the rest of the world. Since we first announced our plan 11 days ago, we have heard from so many of you, our readers. We are grateful for your feedback and, most of all, for your commitment to The Times.

As I have said previously, the introduction of digital subscriptions is an investment in our future. It will allow us to develop new sources of revenue to strengthen our ability to continue our journalistic mission as well as undertake digital innovations that will enable us to provide you with high-quality journalism on whatever device you choose.

As you may know, on March 17, we introduced digital subscriptions in Canada. The Canadian launching allowed us to test our systems and fine-tune the user interface and customer experience. On Monday, we launched globally. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/l28times.html?_r=1

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I'd click on the link you provided, except that would leave me only 19 articles for the rest of the

month . . . .

[RegieRocker]

2. Good luck with that.

[n2doc]

3. It's already been hacked n/t

[RevStPatrick]

4. Goodbye, New York Times!

So long, and thanks for all the fish (wrap)!

I believe they tried this same kind of thing a number of years ago... in the late 90's maybe?
It didn't really last that long, IIRC.

[spanone]

5. it started monday. once their traffic halts, i imagine they'll have second thoughts

[Fool Count]

6. Just copy and paste an article title from the NYT index into the Google window.

Safari users can just click the "Reader" button at the right of http bar when they get that "pay up" warning.

[Scruffy1]

7. Then how they gonna sell the next war?

Or extol the virtues of corporations? Screw their rag.