New York Times Paywall
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The Times struggled internally for years about whether it should charge for online content. There were concerns, nearly existential, about upsetting the code of digital information, which, ostensibly, was meant to be free. The paper finally went ahead with a paywall in 2011 and turned digital subscriptions into a growing business that generated nearly 0 million last year, up 13.5 percent from the year before. (The number of Times digital subscribers, interestingly, is growing at a rate of about 20 percent a year, which suggests the publisher is also counting free-trial members.)
– ReCode