03-17-2011, 06:38 PM
I think the terms are surprisingly reasonable.
This is not like the Newsday paywall that keeps everyone out.
It lets casual browsers hit the site quite often. Twenty articles is a fair number and you'd still be able to access content from links on Google and blogs and such.
The phone and tablet apps already required subscriptions.
The only people this seems likely to impact significantly are those who hit the site almost every day and go well past the headlines. And yeah, $15 bucks a month seems excessive for access to a web site that doesn't deliver loads of free porn. But how often are you gonna have to eat at that trough before coughing up the dough?
This is not like the Newsday paywall that keeps everyone out.
It lets casual browsers hit the site quite often. Twenty articles is a fair number and you'd still be able to access content from links on Google and blogs and such.
The phone and tablet apps already required subscriptions.
The only people this seems likely to impact significantly are those who hit the site almost every day and go well past the headlines. And yeah, $15 bucks a month seems excessive for access to a web site that doesn't deliver loads of free porn. But how often are you gonna have to eat at that trough before coughing up the dough?