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Times Select

by John Cole|  September 21, 200511:33 am| 7 Comments

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According to Gary Farber, Times Select does nothing to impede access to columnists.

I haven’t tried it, as I am just using this opportunity to wean myself off Krugman, Herbert, and Dowd. I think my blood pressure has already dropped.

*** Update ***

Speaking of Times Select, an enterprising experiment over the next few months would be for someone with some inititative to spend some time examining the number of links to the NY Times op-ed pages and the NY Times in general prior to the switch-over, and other top newspapers (WaPo, WSJ, LA Times, etc.) and see if not only do the op-ed links drop for the NY Times, but other links as well.

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  1. 1.

    ppGaz

    September 21, 2005 at 12:01 pm

    I’m pissed that people like me, who were first-day adopters of nytimes.com back in the day (1995? I forget) when it was an oddity, and stuck with them loyally all these years, get rewarded with a charge-for-view scheme at this late juncture. I may eventually cave, but for now, screw them, they will have to pry the $40 from my cold, dead fingers.

    Apologies to the memory of the insane but lovable Charlton Heston.

  2. 2.

    summr

    September 21, 2005 at 12:13 pm

    They’ve patched up the hole Gary referred to. For now the only way
    to get free access is to sign up for the 14 day trial. I suspect they will
    monitor the number of hits to op-ed contributor articles, and will
    notice a steep drop in that number and adjust their approach accordingly.

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    circlethewagons

    September 21, 2005 at 12:27 pm

    FYI; The folks at Sadly, No! seem to have found another hole in the Times Select armor.

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    KC

    September 21, 2005 at 1:38 pm

    Yeah, I just did it yesterday, for fun. Took me all of a minute goofing around with the link before I got to see what I didn’t really miss that badly.

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    JL Strickland

    September 25, 2005 at 1:42 pm

    The $49.94 is bad enough for an unemployed due to imports person like me, but the kicker is that the TimesSelect articles can’t be emailed or saved to the subscriber’s own hard drive.

    what’s next — telling print subscribers that they can’t pass their paper on to the neighbors or wrap fish in it?

    I cancelled after one day.

    But like John Cole’s post said, I may be a better person without the Times and the rest of the blathering media, Liberal and Conservative.

  6. 6.

    rmck1

    October 3, 2005 at 7:09 am

    You can save *anything* to your hard drive if you screen-capture it.

  7. 7.

    Harold

    October 6, 2005 at 4:38 am

    Don’t cave, wait for them to cave. Chances are the NYT will loose readers, exposure, prestige, and ultimately advertising revenue. There are alot of other good newspapers out there such as the Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. Sample them, see which ones you like and you’ll see, they will open up a new and hitherto undiscovered vein of pleasure and news addict thralldom that will make you forget that the New York Times ever existed.

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