tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440532046625675425.post-40978118707356324462007-09-21T11:58:00.000-04:002007-09-21T12:04:21.326-04:00NYTimes to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site<img style="border: 0pt none ; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ocUwspow0ZU/RvPrEVx-HlI/AAAAAAAAAT0/mIDdWQpf_Fk/s320/nytlogo153x23.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112688461794385490" border="0" /><br />Access to articles by columnists and the newspaper archives were formerly only accessible through <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html?_r=1&ei=5087%0A&em=&en=250352c25358a640&ex=1190260800&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1190389750-7m6tL0MU658KkPqTSYnf3A">TimesSelect</a>, but are now available for free for everyone. There will be lingering fees to access certain material from the period of 1923 to 1986, but the public domain portion of the archives from 1851-1922 and all of the archives from 1987 to the present are available without charge.<br /><br />Looking at the <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.nytimes.com&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610&range=3y&size=Medium&url=http://www.nytimes.com">web traffic of NY Times</a> (It drops back to the 2005 level) ... They ought to do it sooner rather than later! With information overflood the Internet and our everyday lives, media might as well start paying us to read their stuff (rather than getting us to pay for it).Andynoreply@blogger.com