Re: New strategy at NY Times and libraries

["B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>]

Barbara Quint of Searcher has provided a couple of good overviews 
of the recent moves by Elsevier and the NY Times to open up 
access to content using an ad revenue model.

Elsevier:
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=39677

NY Times:
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=39678

In discussing the NY Times move, Quint mentions rumors that the 
Wall Street Journal might make the same move once Rupert Murdoch 
takes over. And it looks like the WSJ would be taking a bigger 
risk: the NY Times is foregoing $10 million in annual TimesSelect 
subscriptions, where the WSJ online subscription service is 
pulling in an estimated $50 million annually.

Bernie Sloan