[LINK] News Corp paywalls

[Jan Whitaker]

At 04:32 PM 7/06/2011, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>New York Times Co. said last month that its push to charge the online
>readers of its flagship newspaper is faring better than expected, with
>more than 100,000 people having paid for online access since it began
>charging readers three weeks earlier.

1. The NYT isn't exactly the Herald Sun or The Australian.


>Although The Times of London experienced a sharp decline in web traffic
>when its paywall went up last year, Freudenstein said it's making more
>money from its 79,000 digital subscribers than it did from the 20 million
>unique browsers it used to have.

2. Gee. 1 = 1.
79,000 X $n > 20,000,000 X $0 Wow! They can do math!

Jan



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