New York Times Ditches Fees For TimesSelect

Posted on September 18, 2007 
Filed Under Channel Zero, gLife, Upstarts

This one from the Huffington Post made me laugh:

“Pinch Sulzberger’s attempt to put his prized columnists behind a subscription wall on the theory that they were so much better than free bloggers that people would pay for them–is finally so doomed it’s actually dead, dead, dead, as of midnight tomorrow. … You see, it’s really a success story! It “met expectations.” It’s just that online ad growth was so much higher it was more profitable to not charge readers and thereby get more of them! I mean, who could have foreseen that (except everyone else in the industry)?”

It’s nice that poor illiterate bastards like me can now read a quality new source for free. Long live the Street!

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