NY Times Paywall Details Leak

Most won't have to pay, paper says

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 24, 2011 10:44 AM CST

(Newser) – The New York Times’ long-expected paywall is due next month, and details are starting to leak out about the plan. Everyone will have limited free access to the site, sources tell the Wall Street Journal, but once users reach that limit, they'll have to pony up. Users can buy either a subscription to just the site, or a digital bundle that also includes the Times’ iPad app. Subscribers to the physical paper will have full access to the website.

An insider says the bundle may cost $20 a month, with site-only access costing less than half that. Just 15% of users of the Times site are “heavy users,” the paper says, so most people won’t have to pay at all. And those arriving at the site via search engine will be allowed to view the first page of their search result free.

In this photo made Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, the New York Times appears for sale on a newspaper rack inside a coffee shop in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

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carson

Jan 24, 2011 8:54 PM CST

this is terrible...now how will we stay informed...youd think anyone that paid for advertising would be sort of irate with em

polstroad

Jan 24, 2011 3:26 PM CST

dear Aitchondo don't try for cuteness ...perhaps it is ignorance, but the paper you try to belittle is still regarded as one of the best papers in the world. You use newspapers for kindling? wow! you do have much to learn.

Aitchondo

Jan 24, 2011 2:55 PM CST

Excuse me, but did I miss something. I thought the New York Times was dead and gone. I got a stack of old copies, great for kindling a fire.

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