La Tribune opens archives, another news site edges towards free
Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on April 17, 2008 at 12:14 PM
The website of French business daily La Tribune has opened the near-totality of its online archives, reported Rue89 and AFP.
The only remaining paid-for articles are those of the current day's print edition and the nine previous ones.
"Globally, we made a little revenue with the sale of our archived content, but relatively little. Since we have a model of a free online site paid by advertising, we hope that the increase in the number of page views will translate into a mechanical increase of ad revenue," said Olivier Provost, Editor-in-Chief of latribune.fr.
La Tribune's move comes as a growing number of newspaper websites move to a free online model (or rather, a model paid by advertisers rather than by users directly) and open up their archives.
Even the monthly publication The Atlantic opened its paywall in January. Last year, nytimes.com removed its TimesSelect paywall, and since then user traffic has soared, further putting into question the viability of the online paid-for model. Yet some papers have gone the other route, such as the Guardian and Observer, or the Wall Street Journal, which has kept its paywall despite initial talks to remove it.
La Tribune was acquired from luxury group LVMH by NextRadio TV chief Alain Weill at the beginning of the year.
Source: AFP Mail
The only remaining paid-for articles are those of the current day's print edition and the nine previous ones.
"Globally, we made a little revenue with the sale of our archived content, but relatively little. Since we have a model of a free online site paid by advertising, we hope that the increase in the number of page views will translate into a mechanical increase of ad revenue," said Olivier Provost, Editor-in-Chief of latribune.fr.
La Tribune's move comes as a growing number of newspaper websites move to a free online model (or rather, a model paid by advertisers rather than by users directly) and open up their archives.
Even the monthly publication The Atlantic opened its paywall in January. Last year, nytimes.com removed its TimesSelect paywall, and since then user traffic has soared, further putting into question the viability of the online paid-for model. Yet some papers have gone the other route, such as the Guardian and Observer, or the Wall Street Journal, which has kept its paywall despite initial talks to remove it.
La Tribune was acquired from luxury group LVMH by NextRadio TV chief Alain Weill at the beginning of the year.
Source: AFP Mail
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