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The NYT’s blogs are set to be paywalled
- agentq 17y agoThe relative value of blog content vs. actual news items may be quite low in the majority of posts, looking across the general quality / salience of NYT blog posts. Though some blogs like DealBook and Economix probably have high readership, I wonder if people will really be willing to pay for opinionated tidbits.
- cabalamat 17y ago> I wonder if people will really be willing to pay for opinionated tidbits I guess it's supply and demand: people will be willing to pay of opinionated writing on the net when there is a shortage of free opinionated writing on the net. I.e. never :-)
- dpapathanasiou 17y agoThey've tried it before. "Times Select" was a paid feature for access to its opinion columnists (regular news was free), but it lasted just two years: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-new-york-times-to-close-timesselect-effective-wednesday/ http://paidcontent.org/article/419-new-york-times-to-close-t...
- thechangelog 17y agoI wonder, too. Some of the NYT's most unique content is on its blogs, though, and they're the only NYT feeds I subscribe to. My guess is that if Nisenholtz does this, a lot of the branded blogs on nytimes.com, including both Freakonomics and Paul Krugman, will simply leave and set (back) up on their own I think that's a pretty good guess.
- Shamiq 17y agoLet's just call it a grand experiment and see how it goes.
- philk 17y agoOh no! If only there were other blogs on the internet. I suppose I'll just have to get a subscription then.
- petercooper 17y agoConversely, the NYT's blogs are going to end up being "reader-walled" and "traffic-walled" too.
- drats 17y agoExactly, are people like Krugman going to accept more than half their audience disappearing?