Pay to Surf?The state's largest newspaper said this week that it will begin charging readers for use of its Web site.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, commonly abbreviated locally as the Dem-Gaz or Demgaz, is a daily newspaper published in Little Rock, Arkansas. By virtue of one of its predecessors, the Arkansas Gazette said that, beginning Oct. 1, only users with print or online subscriptions will have "full access" to www.ardemgaz.com. This summer, the Democrat-Gazette began requiring users to register on the site to gain access. The registration is free; users only had to give general demographic information about themselves and submit an e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address to be registered. Once registered, it is free to view stories online in the the past seven days. But after Oct. 1, even those who registered for free won't won't Contraction of will not. won't will not won't will have "full access" to the site. Users must subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; the print edition (a year of seven-days-a-week service in central Arkansas Arkansas, river, United States Arkansas (ärkăn`zəs, är`kənsô'), river, c.1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., central Colo. is $121) or the online edition ($4.95 per month or $49 per year) to get to anything beyond section fronts, classified ads and the archives, the Web site said. A search, of archived articles is free, but it costs $1.95 to read the full article. So will readers continue to sign-on? Registering for a site is nothing new. Many sites, including this publication's arkansasbusiness.com and The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times' www.nytimes.com, require users to give demographic information to read online stories from the paper's print edition. Most sites, however, do not require registration of any kind. Charging for archived stories is not unusual, either. Atarkansasbusiness.com, users must pay $2 per article (or a $50 flat rate for a year's worth of unlimited searches) to read archived stories. But what might test readers' interest is the linking of online access to a paid subscription and charging for online-only access, which isn't as common. The Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com) is one of a handful of newspapers that charges for the Web edition of its newspaper. And online subscription sites, such as Salon Salon, annual exhibition of art works chosen by jury and presented by the French Academy since 1737; it was originally held in the Salon d'Apollon of the Louvre. By the mid-19th cent. the Salon had become an expression of conservative, established tastes in art. .com and Inside.com, are struggling. |
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