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Monday, July 13, 2009


In future news, the Valley Morning Star has collapsed into oblivion.
A South Texas newspaper says it will begin charging for access to its Web site this week, warning that the days of giving content away for free are over.

The Valley Morning Star announced in its online edition Monday that Web site access would remain free for subscribers who receive the print edition seven days a week. But weekend subscribers and non-subscribers will have to pay a 75-cent daily subscription fee for the Web site. Monthly rates will also be available.
Can web-content pay advertising dollars that the print version used to? It better, and if papers can't figure out how to make it work, they're ALL going to go tits up. What does the VMS have to say?
“The days of giving content away, which costs money to create and for which we charge our print subscribers, I think, are just over,” he said.
Well, maybe, but no. Just like a paper without a website has chosen to march towards obscurity, the same is true for those that think they can charge on web content of local news and the AP wire. Maybe one of the other seven papers in the valley will serve its 1.1 million residents.



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