One of the UK's biggest newspaper firms is starting to limit access to online content from six of its titles.The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles or direct them to buy the newspapers. English sites in the pilot scheme are those of the Worksop Guardian, the Ripley & Heanor News, the Whitby Gazette and Northumberland Gazette.
One of the UK's biggest newspaper firms is starting to limit access to online content from six of its titles.
The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles or direct them to buy the newspapers.
English sites in the pilot scheme are those of the Worksop Guardian, the Ripley & Heanor News, the Whitby Gazette and Northumberland Gazette.
The Whitby Gazette? Whitby has a population of six and a half people, and two of them are undead.
On the web - I doubt that you can put a newspaper online and make it interesting enough to pay for, when there are so many other things that people can read.
You could do something else with it, and make it not-a-newspaper. But I suspect that's not the plan here.
