Monday, September 17, 2007

Nonlinear Business - NY Times free access

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night - according to their website ...
What changed, The Times said, was that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead of coming directly to NYtimes.com. These indirect readers, unable to gain access to articles behind the pay wall and less likely to pay subscription fees than the more loyal direct users, were seen as opportunities for more page views and increased advertising revenue.

“What wasn’t anticipated was the explosion in how much of our traffic would be generated by Google, by Yahoo and some others,” Ms. Schiller said.


I can't wait ... hint hint WSJ ...

Now that's an example of nonlinear business thinking

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