Pay wall

Pay wall

A Pay Wall blocks access to a webpage with a window requiring payment from a credit card.

New York Times

The New York Times had a subscription program, TimesSelect, which charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the newspaper's archives. In 2007 paid subscriptions were earning $10 million, but if every reader who reached the pay wall had entered the site, ad revenue would have been higher. In 2007 The New York Times dropped the pay wall to its post 1980 archive. Pre 1980 articles in a pdf format are still behind the pay wall, but an abstract of most articles is available for free. cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site. |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html?ex=1347768000&en=88011ab45717e39d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |quote=These indirect readers, unable to get access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users, were seen as opportunities for more page views and increased advertising revenue. |publisher=New York Times |date=September 18, 2007 |accessdate=2008-04-14 ]

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal, is the last major newspaper in the USA to still have its website behind a pay wall. The Journal has almost one million paying online readers, which generates about $65 million a year. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Whoah! WSJ.com Quietly Makes Big Traffic Strides. |url=http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2008/04/11/whoah-wsjcom-quietly-makes-big-traffic-strides |quote=No wonder Rupert Murdoch's in no hurry to do away with The Wall Street Journal's online pay wall. Even with it still in place around large sections of the site, traffic is still growing at a most impressive rate. |publisher=Conde Nast |date= |accessdate=2008-04-14 ]

Atlantic Monthly

In 2008 the Atlantic Monthly dropped its pay wall. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Atlantic drops pay wall. |url=http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801u/editors-note |quote=Beginning today, TheAtlantic.com is dropping its subscriber registration requirement and making the site free to all visitors. Now, in addition to such offerings as blogs, author dispatches, slideshows, interviews, and videos, readers can also browse issues going back to 1995, along with hundreds of articles dating as far back as 1857, the year The Atlantic was founded. |publisher=Atlantic Monthly |date=January 22, 2008 |accessdate=2008-04-14 ]

Other pay walls removed

*The Economist
*Financial Times

ee also

*Registration wall

References


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