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Two Years Late, But New York Times At Last Joins SYS-CON.com

Times readers online can now at last make most of the NYTimes web site for free
By SOA News Desk
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September 18, 2007 07:00 AM EDT
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After a two-year and widely unpopular experiment of charging subscribers $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year to read its articles online, the New York Times is ending from tomorrow its paid Internet service and becoming free to Web visitors, just as SYS-CON.com has been right from its launch in 1996.

The NYTimes.com site's Vice President and General Manager Vivian Schiller told a reporter: "We now believe by opening up all our content and unleashing what will be millions and millions of new documents, combined with phenomenal growth, that that will create a revenue stream that will more than exceed the subscription revenue."

SYS-CON.com was launched in March 1996, and - while subscribers to its print magazines have always received advanced access to technical articles in digital form -has never charged ordinary Web visitors for its content. 

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Published September 18, 2007 – Reads 5,365
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curmudgeon 09/18/07 08:05:35 AM EDT

The best part of this change is that Paul Krugman's columns will now be available again. He's the guy who beat up on Bush the most. Very smart guy and pithy as hell. This is a great change.