This article from Time Magazine is about the New York Times plan to charge its users for its online website by 2011. The daily newspaper founded in 1851 opened its website 14 years ago. It is the most popular American online newspaper website receiving more than 18 million unique visitors a month.
This new plan will target frequent users of the website. So those you are used to check the newspaper website every morning, might soon have to pay. However, the access will remain free for the old school subscribers.
Many details about this project have not been revealed yet, but will other online newspapers follow the trend and charge readers? Will people have to pay for high quality journalism? Will TV be the only way to be informed about what is going on in the world? Hopefully this new plan will not slow worldwide readers from keeping updated from the world’s most famous newspaper.
This new plan will target frequent users of the website. So those you are used to check the newspaper website every morning, might soon have to pay. However, the access will remain free for the old school subscribers.
Many details about this project have not been revealed yet, but will other online newspapers follow the trend and charge readers? Will people have to pay for high quality journalism? Will TV be the only way to be informed about what is going on in the world? Hopefully this new plan will not slow worldwide readers from keeping updated from the world’s most famous newspaper.
I think that this sort of thing could send the internet in a very interesting direction. We are so used to paying for internet access, and then the majority of information on the internet is free. I wonder if more and more sites will begin charging for their use, and if people will find a way around it. Music pirating is a huge problem right now, but will pirating websites exist in the future?
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