AT LAST! 'NYT' To End Pay Policy re Columnists on Web Site

Good!

I'm a subscriber so I've gotten TimesSelect free (as in, this won't change anything for me), but I think this is the right thing to do.

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I just hope they don't delete your "saved articles" directory. I've used mine extensively.

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I'm glad. I always thought it was an iffy move for them, an odd move regarding spread of "illumination" and discussion, and, as a non-subscriber and a non-TS fee payer, I was routinely annoyed by not being able to read the selected pieces.

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... on the other hand, from travelling to America and looking at the quality of other news outlets, especially the "fair and balanced" ones, I've come away with a very strong conviction that quality reporting is worth paying for. (We Germans, too, have our conservative/commercial junk media, but it's not quite as bad here -- yet.) The paper NYT is not an option for me, so I was glad for this opportunity to support them. Oh well, maybe I'll subscribe to an NPR member station instead ....

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Part of the population that would appreciated reading the selected items cannot easily afford, or afford at all, the fee, even if they think the material "worth it".

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Sure. I'm not blaming you for liking it that their content is free again.

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Re: AT LAST! 'NYT' To End Pay Policy re Columnists on Web Si

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

I find this statement confusing. Are they trying to say that only 787,000 people have read the NYTimes on-line over the last 2 years? I'd find that hard to believe.

Maybe they mean that there are 787,000 people that have created accounts on the NYTimes WWW site but I'd find even that hard to believe. All of us that were former Abuzz members had NYTimes accounts.

I'll have to go see if I can find any traffic count numbers but I'd be surprised if the NYTimes gets less than a million unique hits daily.

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fishin wrote:

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

I find this statement confusing. Are they trying to say that only 787,000 people have read the NYTimes on-line over the last 2 years? I'd find that hard to believe.

The way I parse the statement, they had 560,000 paying subscribers before they introduced Times Select. Now, thanks to Times Select, they have 787,000 -- 227,000 more.

fishin wrote:

I'll have to go see if I can find any traffic count numbers but I'd be surprised if the NYTimes gets less than a million unique hits daily.

Remember you don't want the hits to the free content. You want the hits to the area behind the gate at which you have to pay for access. 787,000 unique visitors to the gated part of the site sounds reasonable to me.

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Interesting!

Quote:

EXCLUSIVE: Traffic Report on Top 30 Web Sites for July

By E&P Staff

Published: August 19, 2007 2:35 PM ET

NEW YORK The New York Times again tops newspaper Web sites in terms of traffic for July, according to the latest data from Nielsen//Net Ratings. Compared to June, NYT.com's unique audience rose to 14,149,000 from 12,535,000. All the papers that made the top five slots in July experienced growth in traffic when compared to June data.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003627048

14 million unique visitors per day. That 787,000 number bugs me for some reason. Razz

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Re: AT LAST! 'NYT' To End Pay Policy re Columnists on Web Si

Thomas wrote:

fishin wrote:
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

I find this statement confusing. Are they trying to say that only 787,000 people have read the NYTimes on-line over the last 2 years? I'd find that hard to believe.

The way I parse the statement, they had 560,000 paying subscribers before they introduced Times Select. Now, thanks to Times Select, they have 787,000 -- 227,000 more.

Ah! Ok, that makes more sense. :wink:

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Those 14 million includes visitors to the free part of the site though. It doesn't surprise me if that's 20 times more than the number of visitors to the gated parted. If A2K charged $10/month from its members, I can easily see membership fall by a factor of 20. (Even a factor 100, if you think of all our members who barely post.)

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