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News International to start charging for web
« on: 26 March 2010, 12:00:37 »
TNews International, which owns the Times and the Sunday Times, will start charging to access its web sites from June, it said today.

The Times will cost £1 per day,  or £2 for a week's subscription, News International said.

http://www.techeye.net/business/murdoch-to-start-charging-for-times-sunday-times-online

Err, no thanks  ;)
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Re: News International to start charging for web
« Reply #1 on: 26 March 2010, 12:06:37 »
Watch their hit rate tumble! A stupid idea when there are so many other news sites about.
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Re: News International to start charging for web
« Reply #2 on: 26 March 2010, 13:34:11 »
sweet geeeee's, or i will just switch on my tv to which i pay a licence for anyway and watch the news... :-/ :-/ :-X :-X
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Re: News International to start charging for web
« Reply #3 on: 26 March 2010, 13:36:27 »
They have summat to do with The Sun newspaper and BSkyB, don't they?
Money-grabbin' shysters!
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Re: News International to start charging for web
« Reply #4 on: 26 March 2010, 14:06:19 »
Stopped buying newspapers years ago, certainly wont help them make money from thier webshites.
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Re: News International to start charging for web
« Reply #5 on: 26 March 2010, 14:34:48 »
Could this be the start of lots of sites charging for access? Not just newspapers.

It has amazed me that so much out there is free!
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Re: News International to start charging for web
« Reply #6 on: 26 March 2010, 15:36:45 »
i can't see more than a few thousand people actually paying to read the times online, but it is a headache for papers as it obviously costs money to staff the online content added to people not bothering to buy a copy as they can read it free.

 personally i prefer holding something in my hand rather than looking at it on the web....that didn't come out right ;D
« Last Edit: 26 March 2010, 15:37:16 by bannjaxx »
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Re: News International to start charging for web
« Reply #7 on: 26 March 2010, 21:05:01 »
£1 a day to read the Sun website ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

No effing hope!

Last paper to try this AFAIR had 30 people subscribing.
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