Paid content online? Been there, done that
Steve Yelvington posted Monday in his blog:
I’ve heard it thousands of times: “The big mistake newspapers made was not charging for access from the beginning.”
But it’s not true that newspapers didn’t charge for access right from the beginning.
Yelvington hit the archives and found that Editor & Publisher reported in 1995 that 45 papers were charging for content online. Among those papers:
- New York Times
- Los Angeles Times
- Chicago Tribune
- Washington Post
- Detroit Free Press
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- San Jose Mercury News
- Newsday
Yelvington is a web strategist for Morris Communications. Find his entire piece here.