(Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
26-03-2010, 13:15
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(Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
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Originally Posted by The Times
The Times and The Sunday Times will start charging for their websites from June, it was confirmed today.
News International, the newspapers’ parent company, announced that readers will be offered a day’s use for £1, or £2 for a week’s subscription. Readers who have a seven-day subscription to the print editions will not be charged extra for access to the websites. International pricing has been set at $2/€1.5 a day or $4/€3 for a week.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle7076987.ece
The shape of things to come? I hope not. I read the Times website on a daily basis, but I really don't see myself paying for it. It's not that £2 a week seems unreasonable for what you get, it's just that I'm cheap I suppose, and there's so many other news sites out there.
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26-03-2010, 13:17
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for webiste from June.
think I can live without news websites plenty of news on Sky if I wanted to find out anything
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26-03-2010, 13:18
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
Personally, I think there's no comparison between Sky and The Times.
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26-03-2010, 13:19
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
As Murdoch owns SKY it makes you wonder if that will be next for online content charging.
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26-03-2010, 13:38
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
Reading the comments on that article, something struck me.
This will probably mean that all the morons who find it necessary to leave ill-informed bigoted bile in the comment boxes on the site will leave overnight. I'm thinking that alone might be worth £2 a week  
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26-03-2010, 13:43
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
There's plenty of other, better news sources out there.
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26-03-2010, 13:45
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
Anybody got any data on the readership base compared to other News Int. sites?
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26-03-2010, 18:37
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
Jeff Jarvis' views...
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I used to work for Murdoch at his American magazine TV Guide. I respected his balls. It is a pity to see them gone.
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26-03-2010, 20:27
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Re: (Sunday) Times to charge for website from June.
I think that people should remember that all that free news will either go away or continue the trend of recycled press releases. You need to make money to provide decent news, you need journalists whose full time job is to be journalists and investigate and report the news. You also need area specialists, experts in the regions/subjects they cover.
Anonymous blogger reporting on matters 1000s of miles away with no prior experience of the issue, and no sources, will not report proper news. What's more they are often biased. How many decent bloggers on the Middle east, with an objective view point, biased near/in Israel, and with a expert knowledge of the history of the region are there?
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