New York times to charge $200 per year to read it.

[aGameOfThrones]

For non-home delivery subscribers, the Times said the basic package, which includes NYTimes.com access plus a smartphone (or iPhone) app, will start at $15 every four weeks (or $195 per year). A second package offering NYTimes.com access plus a tablet (or iPad) app will fetch $20, while an "All Digital Access" package offering full access to NYTimes.com and both of the aforementioned applications will sell for $35 every four weeks.

"Our decision to begin charging for digital access will result in another source of revenue, strengthening our ability to continue to invest in the journalism and digital innovation on which our readers have come to depend," said New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. "This move will enhance The Times's position as a source of trustworthy news, information and high-quality opinion for many years to come."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/17/new_york_times_to_start_charging_15_for_iphone_ipa d_subscriptions_by_june.html

[Anti Federalist]

In other news, the Old Gray Lady's new pens arrived today.

http://www.backseatblogger.com/images/shoot_yourself_gun001.jpg

[Acala]

In other news, the Old Gray Lady's new pens arrived today.

http://www.backseatblogger.com/images/shoot_yourself_gun001.jpg
lol! Pretty much. What kind of sap will pay to read online a bad version of what he can get elsewhere for free?

[Cowlesy]

*Some* of the NYT reporters do a good job, but there is no way in hell I would pay to read the rest of it.

It's funny, in the NY-Metro area, they run an advertisement for the Weekend Times subscription. One of the lines is, "The Times employs the best journalists in the world, and there's no disputing that."

oooooooooooooooh realllly?

:-P

[Jack Bauer]

The NYT will experience the wrath of the free market.

Very fitting. I can't bloody wait. :D

[lester1/2jr]

to me its the same as the WSJ: great paper with a really bad op ed section.

[Lucille]

The less that statist rag is read, the better!

[specsaregood]

The NYT will experience the wrath of the free market.


So they'll be getting a govt bailout soon then?

[sailingaway]

People only want one article. They need to put together a licensing fee like ASCAP/BMI where the fee is allocated by use, but is collected by internet providers, or they will kill surfing the internet.

[nbruno322]

$200 for the pleasure to read establishment darlings such as:

David Brooks
David Sanger
Thomas Friedman
Paul Krugman
Isabel Kershner
etc..

Just so we can hear about how we need to fight more wars abroad and print more money and give up more liberties at home. What a joke. This is an act of desperation and hopefully they are nearing bankruptcy.

Please read this wonderful Glenn Greenwald piece on The NYT's journalistic obedience.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/21/nyt

[tangent4ronpaul]

executive-editor@nytimes.com

Concerning your new digital subscription rates

I was delighted to hear about your new digital subscription rates. Could you please advise as to your asking price and stats for your Heidelberg presses during your bankruptcy sale? It will be a pleasure to see you go out of business!

thank you,

Tangent

[Jack Bauer]

This is roughly the newspaper business equivalent of raising taxes during a recession.

[eduardo89]

I guess it's time to delete my NYT iPhone app then...no way I'm paying for it

[JohnEngland]

Good. Hopefully the same thing will happen to the New York Times as happened to the Times of London, when it censored itself with a paywall last year:

http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?&w=400&h=220&o=f&c=1&y=r&b=ffffff&n=666666&r=2y&u=timesonline.co.uk&

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/timesonline.co.uk#

[Live_Free_Or_Die]

i don't think big money has any intention of getting steamrolled by the internet without a fight. they don't pay the guns of government to sit around and do nothing while competition flourishes.

[AGRP]

Is this still the 19th century when papers had a monopoly on the vastly expensive printing presses?

Perhaps they would realize this is the 21st century if they didn't have their heads so far up their bums.

[LibertyRevolution]

Is the new york times really that good, that they feel they can charge $200 a year, for what others give away for free?

So, why does New York Times want to run itself into the ground?

Guess that is one way to get a bailout. NYT...its to big to fail? :/

[HOLLYWOOD]

Good luck with that NYT!

Anyway with clowns like Krugman on board, the NYT has turned into USAToday/National Inquirer hybird

[Humanae Libertas]

"This move will enhance The Times's position as a source of trustworthy news, information and high-quality opinion for many years to come."

I nearly threw up in my mouth when I read that. Hopefully NYT would be soon to go down the drain, next to Newsweek.

[Zippyjuan]

Looks like home delivery of the physical paper is $70 for twelve weeks or $300 a year. http://www.subscription-offers.com/guide/new-york-times-newsstand/

[nayjevin]

What's a New York Times?

[aGameOfThrones]

Online Readership

“This allows us to reinforce our revenue stream and put ourselves in a position to continue to deliver high-quality information,” Janet Robinson, the company’s chief executive officer, said in an interview. “There may be in the early days a dip in traffic. From a longer-term perspective, we will grow our audience and our advertising base.”

The newspaper’s website has been boosting its readership, increasing its monthly unique visitors to about 49 million in January from 45 million in December, according to the research firm ComScore Inc.


Source: Bloomberg.

[osan]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/17/new_york_times_to_start_charging_15_for_iphone_ipa d_subscriptions_by_june.html

Wow... who needs "girls gone wild" when "hubris and self-absorption gone wild" is so much more entertaining?

This should actually be rather interesting. Which shall prevail, common sense, or are people stupid enough in sufficient numbers to keep the Times afloat? I fear the latter shall prove to be the case. After all, liberals and similar mental midgets seem to abound.

I cannot for the life of me imagine paying over $400/yr for what is essentially a subscription to a poorly written and unimaginative comic book.

[New York For Paul]

The Washington Times is cutting their prices in half next week and adding new sections. They do cover Ron Paul a lot, maybe more than any other newspaper around.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/

[angelatc]

The New York TImes paid upwards of $40 million for their paywall. That's roughly $10 million per line of code required to hack through it; 4

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/that-was-quick-four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2/


The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported.

And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.

Never let it be said that liberals are good with money.

[jmdrake]

If the NYT paid me $200.00 per year to read it...I'd still have to think about it.

[acptulsa]

Well, that raises an interesting question. Do they put what quality they can muster out front as a tease and stuff all the slant inside, or do they give up on new customers by putting all the sponsored slant out front?

Whatever. That's too much money to pay for only what news fits. For that, they ought to be able to fit quite a bit more of what the hell is going on than they do now. And they ought to be able to stand it up straight, too.

[acptulsa]

'It's the news that's not fit to print is what makes the newspapers.'--Will Rogers

Especially this one.