Time has always been clueless about the Internet.
Doug Henwood wrote:
>> TIME SAID READY TO UNPLUG FREE CONTENT
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>> NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Free access to Time Inc.'s most popular magazines
>> could disappear from the Internet. The AOL Time Warner (AOL) unit has
>> concluded that providing Web content at no charge hurt circulation and
>> that Web-based advertising is too meager to make up the difference, the
>> Wall Street Journal reported. The upshot: some of that content may
>> migrate to the company's subscription-based America Online service.
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>> Details of such a shift could be announced at a meeting that AOL will
>> conduct next week with analyst during with it will detail its business
>> strategy, the Journal said. Chunks, if not all, of Entertainment Weekly
>> (http://www.ew.com/ew/), People (http://www.people.com/) and Teen
>> People (http://www.teenpeople.com/teenpeople/) magazines could be the
>> first to be made available only via AOL. Such a move by Time Inc. would
>> certainly be seen as strong endorsement of paid content online. Back
>> before its merger with AOL, Time Warner was one of the first major
>> publishers to embrace publishing on the Web, with Pathfinder.com,
>> launched nearly a decade ago.
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