http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012001473.html?wpisrc=nl_pmtech
New York Times to start charging for web content
Reuters
Wednesday, January 20, 2010; 2:07 PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times will begin charging for articles on its
website next year, marking a major effort by the newspaper to find new revenue
and combat the declines in print circulation and advertising that have badly
hurt the publishing industry.
New York Times Co, which owns the newspaper, said the plan would be built
around a "metered model," charging readers for access after they have viewed a
certain number of articles in a month. New York Times home delivery print
subscribers would continue to have free access to NYTimes.com.
"This process of rethinking our business model has also been driven by our
desire to achieve additional revenue diversity that will make us less
susceptible to the inevitable economic cycles," Chief Executive Janet Robinson
said in a statement.
The announcement confirms reports in recent days that such a move was under
consideration at the New York Times.
(Reporting by Paul Thomasch, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
