New York Times newspaper website to be paid



    Moreover, you will have to pay this month - if earlier the resource could be read absolutely free, an unlimited number of publications, now you have to pay for the materials. However, it will be possible to view 20 articles per month for free, if you want more, you will still have to pay. It is worth noting that those who subscribe to the paper version of the publication receive free access to the newspaper’s website. In addition, owners of applications for mobile devices will be able to read for free the main news of the newspaper. But for everything else you have to pay.

    For example, for a package that includes a subscription to an electronic version and an application for a communicator, you will have to pay $ 15 per month. In addition, the same package, only with a tablet app, costs $ 20 a month. If anyone wants to read the New York Times on both the device and the tablet, they’ll have to pay $ 35 a month.

    True, there are small bonuses - for example, if a user accesses a newspaper’s website from a search engine or social network, then he will be able to read the necessary material without taking into account his subscription. That is, even if the limit has already been exhausted, then this material will be available to the user. This is precisely this way of access to newspaper materials that arouses the greatest interest among fans of free reading. For example, what prevents creating a certain extension for the browser that emulates a call to the resource from the same Facebook? Nothing, and it is likely that in the short term after the inclusion of a paid subscription, such extensions will begin to appear en masse.

    By the way, now more and more publications are monetized in this way. Despite the fact that experts promised disastrous results for online media with a paid subscription, some of the resources that have become paid, live and live. The same edition of The Daily (by the way, which became one of the first in the world to be paid) feels rather well. In general, we will wait until March 28 (the date of the introduction of the paid subscription to the New York Times), and there it will be visible.

    Via Nytimes

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