Stephen Brook at the Guardian reports that the archive will consist of more than 600,000 pages of content. Searches can be conducted by issue, date, sections of the paper, etc. The service will be available by subscription as of December. Until then, the paper is providing free trials.

It is not clear, however, if this strategy works. Both the Guardian and the New York Times now have free archives on their site. For two years, the Times experimented with paid archives among other paid sections in its TimesSelect online subscription service. But maybe the analysis and expert insight provided in the Economist will prove online subscription critics wrong. After all, the paper has doubled its print circulation over the past ten years whereas most other newspapers in Europe and the United States have lost significant percentages of their paid-for circulations.

Source: The Guardian