RE: NY Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site

[William Park <wpark@deepdyve.com>]

"If you are coming to NYTimes.com from another Web site and it 
brings you to our site to view an article, you will have access 
to that article and it will not count toward your allotment of 
free ones."

This payment system will push loyal visitors to start their day 
at HuffPo instead of the NYT since they get better access - I've 
never before heard of a system that penalized loyalty!  Further, 
it encourages bloggers to basically replicate the entire NYT.com 
site on their blog as a way to steal loyal Times readers who want 
to read the whole paper.  Is that really what the NYT want?  To 
be a 'spoke', and let bloggers be the news hub - using NYT's own 
content as the means?

Rather, what if the NYT started to truly integrate other news and 
blogger content into the NYT.com site (a better HuffPo or Digg, 
where NYT content is featured but not exclusive), redesign their 
site more effectively for today's users/platforms and search 
engines, and get more traffic since users can go to the NYT site 
for ALL the news, not just NYT news?



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:31 PM
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Subject: Re: NY Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site

Interesting followup from a new NYT columnist:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/how-to-make-readers-pay-happily/

Bernie Sloan


--- On Wed, 1/20/10, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>
Subject: NY Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 10:52 AM

"The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to
charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being
debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has
so far feared to take."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.html

Bernie Sloan