More about TimesSelect going bye-bye

On the Media had a good piece this weekend on the dissolution of TimesSelect. The argument given on the show is that Google News and the like can’t see firewalled content, meaning fewer readers and thus fewer eyeballs for ads. At the end of the day, ad revenue outweighed subscription revenue. I still see a value in requiring registration, but I hope that the NYT’s experience (and the rumored end of the Wall Street Journal’s pay-only content) influences every other news site out there.

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