Would You Pay To Read NYPost.com?
Yesterday during News Corp.’s fourth quarter and year-end earning conference call, CEO Rupert Murdoch said the Web sites for his newspapers, which include The New York Post, would start to follow a pay model similar to the Wall Street Journal‘s in the coming year.
“The digital revolution has created many new and inexpensive ways of distribution,” Murdoch said. The Journal, which is also owned by News Corp., has had success with its pay model by giving away some information for free and displaying the first few paragraphs of certain stories to non-subscribers, but requiring readers to sign in for access to the rest.
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