NY Post & NY Times | A Change In Content

It's been a month since we've purchased an NY Post newspaper. We've been going online to read up on the latest gossip and some news. It seems that NYPost.com and NYTimes.com are trying to cash in on the online print business. NY Post now requires you to enter how much your household makes when you visit the site. This little survey will mean they get to ask for more money for advert space. In a turn for the worst (or not), the Times announced that it will start charging for its online subscription archives.

The newspaper is surveying registered users of NYTimes.com about two different subscription models. Under one, you would pay an annual fee of $49.99 for unlimited access to all Times articles from the past 365 days. Under the other, you would pay the same price for access to up to 100 articles per month from the Times archives since 1851.

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Source: Wall Street Journal

Currently you can read the Times's online articles that are less than a week old until your heart's content or buy packs of articles at cheaper rates. With Times losing subscribers in its home market yearly, this idea is their best bet. Wall Street Journal currently has over 700,000 online subscribers at $79 per year. Can you say Ka-ching? The Associated Press is going a similar route starting January 1, 2006. On April 18, AP announced that it would start charging newspaper and broadcast clients an additional fee for using AP content on their web sites. The full press release is available here as well as CEO Tom Curley's speech.

What online news site do you frequent daily and would you pay the subscription fee for online content or just buy the newspaper?
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