Newspapers to charge for online content

catkins2

I notice that the Telegraph and The Sun will be charging for access to online content.Would this block access to a lot of comps ?

SailorSam

It seems they're not the only ones, i thought newspapers started charging long ago.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/7529129/Rupert-Murdoch-to-charge-for-access-to-Times-and-Sunday-Times-online.html

mjm3346

Depends which side of the "pay wall" they decide to put them but probably not as people who buy the print version would not be able to enter (unless they go down the route of printing unique codes in each paper so you can enter on-line)

catkins2

mjm3346 wrote: »

Depends which side of the "pay wall" they decide to put them but probably not as people who buy the print version would not be able to enter (unless they go down the route of printing unique codes in each paper so you can enter on-line)

Good point.

weeowens

The Times went that way quite a bit back.We lost some comps but lots are still posted.
I'd expect much the same to happen on other sites.

Zanzib

Really it depends on how many articles you read. You can access 20 free.

The info they sent out a few weeks ago (and I mentioned in a thread I posted about it) didn't specify how they were treating pages like competitions etc.

So you won't know if they are included until you reach the limit in a month and get the subscription message.

mjm3346

Another way to go is todays Sunday times hourly comp which has an extra entry for Times + members (subscribers)