A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions

[trud]

Source: New York Times

Today marks a significant transition for The New York Times as we introduce digital subscriptions...On NYTimes.com, you can view 20 articles each month at no charge (including slide shows, videos and other features). After 20 articles, we will ask you to become a digital subscriber, with full access to our site...$3.75 per week...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/opinion/l18times.html

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That's about $200 a year. I guess I'll have more free time now.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Sayonara grey lady

eom

[Stuart G]

5. maybe, maybe not..

[bemildred]

2. Oh yeah, that'll work.

:sarcasm:

[hedgehog]

3. I pay about $25 a month for the local paper, so that's not a bad price.

It costs money to report the news as opposed to simply expressing your opinion. OTOH, when people pay money, they want content.

[ananda]

4. You will still be able to read 20 free articles a month there.

nt

[trud]

6. 20 articles a month

that's less than one a day.

[Loge23]

7. Frank Rich is gone, so maybe

I figure Krugman and a few others may work for me with the 20 free.

[dkf]

8. Good way to make yourself irrelevant.

I don't read enough material from them to justify paying that much. But once in a while i might have wanted to. Not anymore.

[kirby]

9. Rather than passing along the savings

of raw materials and printing, they will pocket the money instead. Another stupid example of how not to leverage the new lower cost virtual distribution model for the benefit of the consumer.

[Frisbee]

10. Since I rarely go there unless clicking link from DU...

I doubt I'll really care. But I have to wonder, when their number of hits decline, will their advertising rates fall as well?

[donco]

11. I think I will subscribe I live

in a rural area and it’s to far in the boonies to get home delivery of the local paper.

[alp227]

12. i get around the NYTimes.com pay wall by clearing cookies from my computer

In case you didn't know, websites place files called "cookies" on your computer for tracking purposes so that the website remembers one's site preferences or browsing habits or remember passwords/logins. That's how the NYTimes.com site tracks how much people use the site. I've done that before and hope that I can get around their 20 free articles limit that way.