Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Charges Of the Site Brigade: "[S]everal American newspapers saw a drop in traffic to their sites after they started charging for access. Tulsa World, an Oklahoma daily, reports that nearly 3,000 non-print subscribers have signed up for its $45-a-year Web subscriptions. But traffic to its Web site dropped 25 percent after it switched to paid access last summer, according to online publisher Dilene Crockett. The Albuquerque Journal made a similar move and reported a Web traffic drop of about 40 percent."