http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2007/08/nyt-to-drop-timesselect-blodgett/ Commentary on media, technology, marketing and clamming strategies Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2007/08/nyt-to-drop-timesselect-blodgett/comment-page-1/#comment-180702 Vario Creative Blog » Murdoch to End WSJ.com Subscriptions? Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:15:32 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1291#comment-180702 [...] Earlier in the week, the New York Times put the “Times Select” subscription website out of our collective misery (from Silicon Alley Insider via David Churbuck) .  That left WSJ.com as the last successful subscription newspaper site.  Now this word from Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch has said he might make the Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a shift that could compel Pearson to do the same with the online version of its Financial Times. [...] [...] Earlier in the week, the New York Times put the “Times Select” subscription website out of our collective misery (from Silicon Alley Insider via David Churbuck) .  That left WSJ.com as the last successful subscription newspaper site.  Now this word from Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) – News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch has said he might make the Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, a shift that could compel Pearson to do the same with the online version of its Financial Times. [...]

]]> http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2007/08/nyt-to-drop-timesselect-blodgett/comment-page-1/#comment-179060 site admin Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:23:59 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1291#comment-179060 Cost and reg walls must die. Period. Last gasp of the old media is the erection of a wall. First sign of sanity is their takedown. Cost and reg walls must die. Period. Last gasp of the old media is the erection of a wall. First sign of sanity is their takedown.

]]> http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/2007/08/nyt-to-drop-timesselect-blodgett/comment-page-1/#comment-179034 Rob O'Regan Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:51:55 +0000 http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1291#comment-179034 good riddance I say. I could never access Select, and I was a freaking print subscriber who was supposed to get it for free. Customer support was useless - "we'll get back to you" (never did). I think they were confused, me living in NH and all. Live free (as in content) or die! good riddance I say. I could never access Select, and I was a freaking print subscriber who was supposed to get it for free. Customer support was useless – “we’ll get back to you” (never did). I think they were confused, me living in NH and all. Live free (as in content) or die!

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