So I read today that the New York Times is going to start charging for their online content. Fifteen dollars for four weeks. That's $0.54 a day to read news that's pretty much free anywhere else in the world, unless of course you think the NYT has something special to offer that other sites don't.
They don't. They just think they do. Those who don't want to pay can still view up to 20 articles a month and can still get the top news offering for free.
I suppose they figure anyone who reads more than 20 articles a month thinks highly enough of their work to fork over $15 a month for free. Maybe they're right. I haven't investigated how they plan to limit the access to twenty articles. Perhaps all readers would have to sign in. That would be pretty much the death sentence right from the start. Newspapers are a dying business model because news is free. That's what the internet has brought us. And there is no going back.
I think I'll stick with Google news, because it works. And it's free.
