In line with what is now a clear trend, the Daily Telegraph is about to start charging readers for access to its website:
People will be allowed to read just 20 articles a month on the paper's site for free. If they wish to read more then they will be able to choose between two digital subscription pages...
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This metered model is favoured by newspapers across the US - notably at the New York Times - and Canada. It is also employed in Britain by the Financial Times, but the Telegraph becomes the first general newspaper in the UK to introduce it.By contrast, The Times and Sunday Times site is protected by a full paywall, restricting all access... unless users pay for a subscription.
One feature of the New York Times paywall that is specific to it, so far as I know, and worth mentioning, is that the paper allows free access to a certain category of 'visitor':
Readers who come to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media like Facebook and Twitter will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit.
As a blogger, I obviously have an interest in recommending this enlightened practice to other newspapers. But then people at the NYT must think that there is an interest on its side too in encouraging blogger and social network links to their site.