Times Online to charge for access In a recent financial results statement, Rupert Murdoch stated his intention to start charging for access to News Corp's newspaper sites including The Times and The Sun.
Charging for content seems like a mistake to me, as web users in general I think are pretty fickle, and expect to get everything for free, so if they have to pay will probably just go elsewhere.
Any thoughts? Has anyone here tried running a site with a pay-to-view model?
With so much for free, I would be surprised if many "general public" would be prepared to pay, I can see some paying for things like The Times and for specialist content, but not for general newspaper content.
The bit that does frustrate me is when you get these pay sites allowing Google to index content and when you click you don't even get the snippet as seen on Google just the "Pay Here" sign.
Yeah that's one of my pet hates, especially when it comes to looking for a solution to an obscure problem.Originally Posted by monaghan
I think all the sites will eventually charge, however many of them are also looking to sell products to make money online.
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