NYTimes Unveils Online Subscription Plan

An anonymous reader writes "The NYTimes announces their three pricing tiers for digital access. An interesting note: 'Readers who come to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media like Facebook and Twitter will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit. For some search engines, users will have a daily limit of free links to Times articles.'"

Two words why I'll never buy a NYT subscription

[GodfatherofSoul]

Judith Miller. To paraphrase a surprisingly insightful comment from Ben Affleck, the NYT might be revered by older generations who lived through their glory days, but as someone who started following politics around Clinton's impeachment, the first thing I saw them do was sell a bullshit war and quite probably staff CIA-friendly propagandists.

why would I pay for news?

[Skarecrow77]

I'm confused. Why would I ever want to pay for news?

I've got free news from: cnn.com, msnbc.com, foxnews.com, bbc.uk, new radio, various news apps on my smartphone, and tens of thousands of idiotic commentary available to me across the web.

What has NYT got that I can't get elsewhere for free?

Expensive

[empiricistrob]

I'm very conflicted by this move from the times. In my opinion nytimes.com is one of the best sources of journalism on the web, and I've always been concerned that in the long run their business model wouldn't be sustainable. I think that paying money to support good journalism makes a lot of sense -- it's too important not to.

But $15/mo for the entry level? That's really disappointing. There are many readers that will not be able to afford this. I was hoping the entry level would be closer to the $5/mo mark.

Re:why would I pay for news?

[Mazzie]

Its kind of like owning a luxury car. You still get from A to B, but you feel better than everyone else because you wasted your money.

Re:why would I pay for news?

[empiricistrob]

Why would you pay for news? Perhaps because you value journalism? Because high quality journalism is essential for a well functioning democracy? Because you don't want to read news where 50% of the headlines are about Lindsay Lohan or "human interest stories"?

Re:why would I pay for news?

[Attila Dimedici]

Why would you pay for news? Perhaps because you value journalism? Because high quality journalism is essential for a well functioning democracy?/quote> Of course, that still leaves the question as to why would you pay for the New York Times?

Re:Two words why I'll never buy a NYT subscription

[MightyYar]

A 'Soviet' is a type of administrative council, not a denonym for citizens of the former Soviet Union.

Just like "Shimmer", it's both!

Did you just graduate from a course or something? The word "Soviet" has been used in the West for decades to describe citizens and the government of the Soviet Union. It is also commonly used as an adjective to describe other things associated with the USSR. That's what happens when you put the word "Soviet" in your country name.