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The NY Times stops charging for content
Posted on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 under random design news by Dustin Brewer.It looks like the New York Times finally realized that charging for content is an out dated practice. They recently have opened up their archived news articles to the public. It has taken them awhile but I’m glad to see they have finally come to their senses on the matter.
I know this doesn’t seem like much news to those of you that don’t read the NY Times but it is a sign of the times. As some of the old media sites start to completely move to advertising based models you have to ask yourself what the next step is going to be.
There is always the fear that advertising is going to go further then it already is as far as intrusiveness goes. It is not that I am against advertising at all. It is quite the opposite, just curious to see the next phase in advertising that is going to keep all of the old and new media sites making money.
At any rate, I’ve got 100 years worth of back-dated stories to read.
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Are they going to be making the 1850- onwards archives available?
I live in the UK and it was very hard for me to get access to the NY Times archive.