{"id":340,"date":"2005-09-12T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2005-09-12T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T18:13:36","slug":"uh_oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/uh_oh\/","title":{"rendered":"uh oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/products\/timesselect\/overview.html?incamp=ts:mkt_predad2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ny times select.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/ny times select.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"20\" height=\"423\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/products\/timesselect\/overview.html?incamp=ts:mkt_predad2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ny times select features.jpg\" img border=\"1;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/ny times select features.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s really happening. Next Monday, The New York Times will inaugurate its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/products\/timesselect\/overview.html?incamp=ts:mkt_predad2\">&#8220;Times Select&#8221;<\/a> subscription service. NYTimes.com will remain free, with much of the usual content still available (including multimedia), but op-eds and columnists will be pay-only. Oh well, the Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/opinions\/\">opinion page<\/a> is better anyway. The 100-article-per-month archive access is slightly tempting though.<br \/>\nThe Times is betting that significant numbers of readers will shell out, just like they do for a premium channel on cable. Can the Times be the HBO of web news? Casual reader poll: who&#8217;s thinking of paying?<br \/>\n(link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/membercenter\/editorsletter.html?hp\">Letter From the Editor<\/a> explaining the new service to readers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really happening. Next Monday, The New York Times will inaugurate its &#8220;Times Select&#8221; subscription service. NYTimes.com will remain free, with much of the usual content still available (including multimedia), but op-eds and columnists will be pay-only. Oh well, the Washington Post opinion page is better anyway. The 100-article-per-month archive access is slightly tempting though. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[807,893,967,1155,1290,1292,1295,1296,1333,1354,1547,1788,1870,1872,1997],"tags":[2589],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hbo","category-internet","category-journalism","category-media","category-news","category-newspaper","category-newyork","category-newyorktimes","category-nytimes","category-online","category-publishing-broadcast-and-the-press","category-subscription","category-times","category-timesselect","category-web","tag-journalism-news-media-newspaper-online-web-internet-subscription-nytimes-times-newyorktimes-newyork-timesselect-hbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}