FC: Salon begins to charge for "virtually all" news articles

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.salon.com/letters/editor/2001/10/01/premium_news/index.html

   Oct. 1, 2001 | Starting today Salon will begin publishing virtually
   all of its News and Politics articles in our Premium edition. This
   means that if you don't already subscribe to Salon Premium, you will
   need to do so in order to keep reading Salon's coverage of the Bush
   administration and the current global crisis.

   [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/02/business/media/02SALO.html    

October 2, 2001
Salon, Magazine on the Web, Will Charge Readers of News
By FELICITY BARRINGER

The Web magazine Salon, facing sharply lower advertising revenues and 
increased costs for gathering news, has decided to make its news and 
political coverage available only to paying subscribers.
The goal, said David Talbot, the editor of the six-year-old magazine, is to 
rely on circulation revenue for half of next year's $7.5 million budget. 
That goal, an ambitious one by the standard of any magazine, print or 
online, is an indication of the unremittingly sour climate for Web advertising.
Another high-profile online site, Steven Brill's Contentville, quit 
business on Friday, leaving its 15 employees without jobs. In an e-mail 
message to the staff, Mr. Brill said, "Despite the great work of the 
Contentville staff and the great support we had from our partners, my idea 
for Contentville just didn't work." Contentville allowed readers to go to 
one site to find and purchase articles from a variety of newspapers and 
magazines, as well as books, dissertations and other sources.
[...]




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