The Times they are a -charging

Brian Walker on March 26, 2010, 5:59 pm | Readers 3

Murdoch’s NewsCorp will start charging for The Times and Sunday Times at last.

Readers will be offered a day’s use for £1, or £2 for a week’s subscription. Readers who have a seven-day subscription to the print editions will not be charged extra for access to the websites. International pricing has been set at $2/€1.5 a day or $4/€3 for a week.

The Irish Times are launching a subscription based epaper.” in traditional format” and “a move away from a perception of the website as the newspaper on the web for free.”

Pricing for the epaper is on a sliding scale, running from €1.80 for a single day to €9 for one month, €25 for three months and €89 for 12 months.

Does this mean the beginning of the end of the present online access?

Brian Walker

Former BBC journalist and manager in Belfast, Manchester and London, Editor Spolight; Political Editor BBC NI; Current Affairs Commissioning editor BBC Radio 4; Editor Political and Parliamentary Programmes, BBC Westminster; former London Editor Belfast Telegraph. Hon Senior Research Fellow, The Constitution Unit, Univ Coll. London

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