Tuesday, August 7, 2007

NY Times to Axe Premium Subscription Service Times Select

The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content. NYTimes.com is poised to shut down its Times Select subscription service and move the premium content back to free. NYTimes.com won’t confirm/deny. The number of web-only subscribers (from $7.95 to $49.95) in June was 221,000, down from 224,000 in April. Of course, the newspaper industry has watched the Times Select effort very closely. Is there room for premium content on a newspaper site?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08072007/business/timesselect_content_freed_business_holly_m__sanders.htm
http://www.lostremote.com/2007/08/07/report-ny-times-to-axe-times-select/

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