Comments on: NYTimes.com Drops TimesSelect, Focuses On Search And Link-Based Economy

By: How Search Has Transformed News Consumption On The Web - Publishing 2.0

How Search Has Transformed News Consumption On The Web - Publishing 2.0 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:58:26 +0000

[...] New York Times killed TimesSelect because they realized more people would discover that content through search than would coming in through the NYT brand front door — and all of those news consumers coming in through search are casting a net as wide as the web. [...]

By: Bodybuilder

Bodybuilder — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:59:34 +0000

How much have NYT SEO optimizators, that question!

By: LSDI : IL NETWORK MODELLO PORTANTE DELL INFORMAZIONE DEL FUTURO

LSDI : IL NETWORK MODELLO PORTANTE DELL INFORMAZIONE DEL FUTURO — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:55:13 +0000

[...] accorpati come nel cartaceo, non vogliamo pagare il dovuto e facciamo finta che le news siano free (tu quoque, NYT?). Non è così, però lo pretendiamo. Fermo restando che in entrambi i modelli ci sono le [...]

By: Forget Platforms And Applications, Data Is The Real Asset On the Web » Publish2 Blog

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:53:55 +0000

[...] what drives the search economy. That’s why NYTimes.com realized they were better off putting their content (data) into the search engine index…, because they derive more value from putting data into the search ecosystem than they do keeping it [...]

By: Reinventing the Economics of News » Publish2 Blog

Reinventing the Economics of News » Publish2 Blog — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:48:34 +0000

[...] a sudden realization about the perceived failure of news organizations to charge for news online. The New York Times has torn down the TimesSelect pay wall — does that mean that reading TimesSelect content online is now [...]

By: Free means never having to say you’re sorry » mathewingram.com/media

Free means never having to say you’re sorry » mathewingram.com/media — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:08:53 +0000

[...] revenues only, and that is definitely a concern. But I believe — as Jay Rosen and other smart people do — that being part of the online ecosystem (which includes permanent links to archived [...]

By: MediaChannel.org

MediaChannel.org — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:59:53 +0000

[...] Karp at Publishing 2.0 says NYTimes.com is ahead of other sites in “realizing the value of premium content by opening it [...]

By: portlandville.com » Another wall comes down

portlandville.com » Another wall comes down — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:28:50 +0000

[...] There is a ton of chatter on media blogs today about the NY Times’ decision to do away with its paid content experiment, Times Select. Now it’s all free. You can get a good sense of the conversation here, at Publish2 Blog. [...]

By: N

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:47:43 +0000

Per 2nd commentor – that’s really a poorly researched statement. First of all, TimesSelect was successful and profitable to NYT – it grew both subs and revenue in its second year. the fact that NYT walked away from it shows courage and foresight.

Secondly, we’ll see how long the WSJ paid wall lasts. Murdoch will quickly follow suit.

By: Brijit

Brijit — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:30:55 +0000

Scott:

Commodity content gets commodity pricing, so the price of news goes to zero. Great for the consumer… unless, of course, our unwillingness to pay for content makes it impossible for the unique, high-quality, low-volume, long-form publishers to make a living, in which case we all lose.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the New York Times, which holds itself up as a bastion of editorial integrity and quality journalism, helped kill both?