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Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
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The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night.
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What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to NYTimes.com. These indirect readers, unable to get access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users, were seen as opportunities for more page views and increased advertising revenue.
“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others,” Ms. Schiller said.
Duh. That took them a long time to realize…
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