Yet another site to Google
In the red due to declining advertising, The Washington Post is going behind a paywall.
From
The Wall Street Journal:
Washington Post Plans a Paywall
The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter.
While details are being finished, people familiar with the matter said that a metered paywall�meaning a website that allows casual readers to read a certain number of stories free before charging a subscription fee -- is likely to be rolled out in 2013, along with increases to the print newspaper's newsstand price. One person familiar with the matter said the paywall will be introduced no earlier than next summer.
The Post is dealing with a steep decline in its core business of print advertising. Its newspaper division reported an operating loss of $56.3 million for the first nine months of the year, reflecting a 14% decline in revenue to $160.7 million. The company lost its chief revenue officer in the spring, and the search for a replacement continues.
If this is anything like the New York Times' paywall, you can either use
CCleaner to clear out your cookies or you can call up the article (just the first few lines will be shown), cut and paste the title and Google NYT + title and click on the link that shows the article's URL. The Times doesn't block searches that come from Google as it wants its site to be indexed.
Posted by DaveH at December 7, 2012 1:53 PM