Re:New York Times Sees Sense: Paywall Comes Crashing Down
by nickb on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @06:41PM
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A quick back of the napkin math shows that they won't even recover a fraction of the revenue they're foregoing.
This move has nothing to do with ad revenue and everything to do with fighting Murdoch and WSJ. WSJ will go free (mark my words) and will take a away a ton of NYT's traffic. NYT is fortifying its traffic and is trying to boost it before Murdoch makes a direct assault.
This move has nothing to do with ad revenue and everything to do with fighting Murdoch and WSJ. WSJ will go free (mark my words) and will take a away a ton of NYT's traffic. NYT is fortifying its traffic and is trying to boost it before Murdoch makes a direct assault.