Thursday, July 08, 2010

The MediaMemo
Time Magazine Walls Off Its Web Site: Will You Pay Up?
by Peter Kafka
Posted on July 7, 2010



Want to read the cover story of this week’s Time magazine? Whip out your wallet: You can only get all of Steve Brill’s piece on lobbying and financial reform via Time’s print edition or its new iPad app. Web freeloaders see a snippet, preceded by this note: “The following is an abridged version of an article that appears in the July 12, 2010, print and iPad editions of TIME.”

That goes for almost every other story in this week’s issue, as well–even the magazine’s letters to the editor section has been cut short. But everything on Time.com that isn’t in the magazine–and there’s whole lot of that stuff–remains free.

More at The Media Memo.


Footnote:
This news will please Rupert Murdoch who recently reduced viewing of The Times and other newspapers to subscribers. Until now he has been pretty much the only major news magnate to take this route. Personally I hope their online viewing collapses dramatically so that they are forced to reintroduce free access. Ot lose their online advertisers.

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