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Paying For Content? No Thanks!
28, Jul 2010It’s official. British internet users don’t want to pay for extra content. Hot on the heels of The Times’ paywall failure comes research from KPMG. And it doesn’t make for good reading by anyone that wants to charge for content: 81% of UK internet users would stop visiting a site if it asked them to [...]
- In: FirstFound News
- Tags: failure, murdoch, paywall, times
About a month ago, The FirstFound Blog brought you news of The Times website relaunching as a paid-for subscriber service. We ended that article with a question: Will you be willing to pay for online news? If you currently read The Times online, will you stump up or move on? Now, it looks like we’ve [...]
- In: FirstFound News
- Tags: failure, murdoch, paywall, times
The Times is Dead. Long Live The Times!
17, Jun 2010Rupert Murdoch’s long awaited paywall has moved one step closer to implementation, with the closing down of the Times’ timesonline.co.uk website. In its place, NewsCorp has launched thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk, both of which feature a prominent login bar, making the move to paid-for content clear. Following a high profile spat with Google over the Google [...]
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- Tags: murdoch, paywall, times