Pay Walls

[poliphilo]

The pay walls have gone up at The Times and The Sunday Times. Goodbye guys, it was nice knowing you.

Of course Rupert Murdoch is entirely within his rights to charge for content, but I think he's miscalculating. He's an old bloke and he doesn't understand the Net. The old newspapers no longer have a monopoly on news and comment- and if they ask us to pay for what we've become accustomed to getting for free, we'll simply go elsewhere.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how things work out. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm in agreement with steepholm- the WSJ is a special case. Britain has four national broadsheets. My guess would be that the disappearance of one of them behind pay walls is going to mean better traffic for the other three.

For the record I've been in the habit of reading all four online. I'll miss The Times for one or two of its writers, but not enough to pay for it at a time when money is tight.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer. I will do without a lot before I cancel either subscription.