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The Times Pay Wall
2nd July 2010
The Times and Sunday Times today launches their pay wall for users of their online edition. News International know that they will lose a substantial amount of traffic by introducing a subscription system for their news and comment pages. The background to the decision can be found here.
I have an online subscription to the Financial Times and have also paid for the Wall Street Journal online edition in the past. But there is no way I will pay for the regular edition of the Times, there simply isn’t enough genuine value added and I suspect thousands of others will think the same. From a blogging viewpoint I will no longer link to any articles from the Times web site. There are few things more annoying for blog readers than to be redirected to a pay-wall site where an interesting story is blocked by annoying registration pages.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.