Perhaps. But some of the site will remain free. And I believe that in some cases, readers will have their choice of an advertisement-free paid site or a commercial site with ads. Survival is dependent on the revenue flow.
On Jan 31, 2011, at 10:45 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Expect that 20m viewers to drop off considerably when they start charging. > > > On 1/31/2011 10:17 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> The Times website, for example, attracts about 20 million viewers a month. >>> It doesn't yet generate enough revenue to make up for losses suffered by >>> the print edition, but it's revenues are growing >> I gather they're going to start charging for over a limited number of >> article views next month sometime. They now have a nifty "reader" that I >> think disposes of ads and includes all the articles, not just the ones >> linked on the website as currently for about $20 a month. [Two week free >> trial.] I'm tempted. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir >> Decatur, GA USA >> eew...@bellsouth.net > > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
