FishbowlNY Readers Respond: Split Over New York Times Pay Wall
Last week The New York Times announced that they would be introducing a metered pay wall to NYTimes.com by 2011, allowing readers to view a certain number of articles on the Web site before they were prompted to pay. Since the issue of paying for online content has been at the forefront of discussions about media lately, we asked our readers: Would you be willing to pay the price to access NYT articles?
Your response? The majority votes nay.
52 percent of FishbowlNY readers said there was “no way” they’d fork over their credit card numbers to read one of the most prestigious newspapers online, when news aggregators and other sites could deliver the same information free of charge.
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