Wall Street Journal will be as free as the New York Times

Posted by Marshall on September 18, 2007 | Link It

Sounds like both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal will be entirely free for online content according to TechCrunch.

"..The news comes after the New York Times dumped their pay-for-view service Monday.

The Wall Street Journal currently charges $99 per year for full access to all content at wsj.com

Murdoch rejected criticism that a free wsj.com would hurt the newspaper, saying that making the site available free would help boost viewership and revenue globally… ‘If you make it free, it will hurt the paper’ — I don’t think so,"

About time.  



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Syndey
09/24/07 @ 12:08 pm

The WSJ.com cannot go free without violating a dozen contracts they already have in place with distribution partners like Factiva, Lexis Nexis, Congoo.com and many others. Murdoch better talk to a lawyer.



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