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Low tech solutions to paywall problems Paid Members Public
I confess: for all my “meh” about paywalls, I currently have paid access to The Times’ new websites. There are a couple of bloggers I actively miss, and think *might *be worth the money. Yesterday, I spotted this on Ruth Gledhill’s blog [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/
Afternoon Tea Reading: National Newspapers Paid Members Public
Some links about our friends in the nationals that have been hanging around in my Chrome tabs for too long now: * The Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress [http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/08/the-independent-switches-to-wordpress/] . Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit. * The Guardian
End of an Era Paid Members Public
The grand experiment is about to begin: [](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/06/1C32A675-5FEA-428C-9C08-A224A5136E7Eiphone_photo.jpg) Now we find out if pay walls can work…Location:[The Quadrant,
The Times, They Are a'iPadding Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/06/IMG_0005.png] **The Good**: The navigation is surprisingly fluid and intuitive. You can either read the the whole issue as you might the paper edition, swiping through each section in turn. Or, you can pick and choose the
The Paywalled Times: An Online Private Members' Club? Paid Members Public
And so it begins. After a launch event last night (which was invited to but was unable to attend, alas), *[The Times](http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/)* and *[The Sunday Times](http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/)* have begun the four week transition to their new online model.
Paywalls: The Experiment Begins in June Paid Members Public
So, The Times and Sunday Times will be behind a paywall from June [http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-times-new-pay-site-1-a-day-2-a-week-starting-june/] . The theoretical arguments between the “link economy and conversation brings value” and the “content is valuable and must be paid for” camps have been iterated and reiterated to death in recent
The Murdoch/Google Phony War Paid Members Public
In the end, a war on Google is a much more appealing spin on the newspapers’ current position than “we haven’t figured out how to make money online in a decade of trying”. They’ll blame Google, they’ll blame the shadowy cabal of infomation-must-be-free proponents [http://www.buzzmachine.
The Murdoch Plan: A Consortium Paid Members Public
And so, the Murdoch plan for content charging [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-newscorp21-2009aug21,0,5961516.story] begins to become clear: > As newspapers across the country struggle with declining readership and > advertising revenue, News Corp. executives have been meeting in recent > weeks with publishers about forming a
