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Here's an item from today's Media Daily:

>The New York Times' grand old promise to deliver "all the news that's fit 
>to print" may need a revise. The new slogan could just as easily read "all 
>the news you can afford," as the paper plans to sell its archives online 
>at $2.50 per article. Like recent moves by Gannett's USA Today and others, 
>the new service will be available on the newspaper's existing Web site 
>( http://www.nyt.com).  

Also in the recent days, USA Today debuted its service with articles at $1 
a pop.

I've written a bit about news Web archives recently, and one of my 
complaints is that the per-article charges are too high. For a multi-pub 
archive like Nexis or Dialog, OK, a higher price is justified -- and those 
services' business market will bear the price. But for a single-newspaper 
archive Web system, I believe they're wasting an opportunity for a larger 
consumer market with too-high prices. NYT is a great paper, but I'm sorry, 
it's single articles are nowhere near worth $2.50, IMHO.

For a future column, I'd like to write about the pricing debate. 

* If you have comments, please send them to me as private mail. Someone, 
please justify such high archive prices for individual newspaper archive 
sites. I've yet to hear a good argument.

* Also, please tell me what your Web archive system charge is per article.

Thanks!

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