New York Times chair Arthur Sulzberger made clear that his paper will not cut off its content from the crawl of search engines. Though details for The Times' metered model have
not been finalized, Sulzberger says that Web surfers will be able to get to The Times for free through social and search links: "People will have a chance to go to the site and read a certain
number of pages. Free. We also are going to keep the social networks open. If somebody is sent a link to a New York Times article, they can open the link," reports the eConsultancy blog.
Paywalls are increasingly seen as a way to help
the beleaguered newspaper industry, notes
Star News. Wall Street Journal owner Rupert
Murdoch looked at reducing that paper's paywall when he bought the newspaper; now he's imposing
paywalls on two of his British newspapers. That move is
causing one blogger to defect. New Yorker editor
David Remnick defends the paywalls at his magazine.
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