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«The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take.

Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site.

But executives of The New York Times Company said they could not yet answer fundamental questions about the plan, like how much it would cost or what the limit would be on free reading. They stressed that the amount of free access could change with time, in response to economic conditions and reader demand.»

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Update (laufend):

• Via Romanesko hier die interne Mitteilung der «New York Times»


• Ken Doctor: Nine Questions: New York Times Goes Metered


• Steve Yelvington: What we won't learn from the New York Times' paywall


• Nicholas Carr: Just don't call it a paywall


• Jack Shafer: The Wall


• Alan D. Mutter: Pay meter works at FT, but can it help NYT?


• Jeff Jarvis: The cockeyed economics of metering reading


• Nicholas Carr: Cockeyed economics [of Jeff Jarvis]


• Rick Edmonds: Charging for Web Access Makes Business Sense for New York Times


• Erick Schonfeld: The New York Times’ Online Meter Will Hardly Move The Needle


• Felix Salmon: Running the numbers on the NYT paywall


• David Carr («New York Times»): Dialing in a Plan: The Times Installs a Meter on Its Future


• Nicholas Carr: The Times's delayed, leaky paywall


• Frédéric Filloux: The Numbers Behind the Paywall


• Steve Yelvington: Cookie monster versus "soft" paywalls


• Steve Yelvington: The soft paywall: Some more numbers to chew on


• Scott Rosenberg: The Great News Business Model Hunt is a Wild Goose Chase