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Will other papers follow FT.com?

By Dallas Association of Law Librarians

This article from the New York Times made me start wondering how many other papers will start charging for articles and restricting access via our other channels.

The Paper That Doesn?t Want to Be Free
By ERIC PFANNER
Published: August 16, 2009
New York Times

Not long ago, when other media executives were convinced that the only way to succeed on the Web was to give away their content, The Financial Times played the eccentric.
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In another effort to generate additional digital revenue, the newspaper restricted access last year to its content through databases like Factiva and LexisNexis, requiring users to buy special licenses to read archived articles. More than 600 corporate customers, with a total of about 50,000 users, have done so.

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