Decius wrote:
] Huh? So I did a search on MemeStreams for NYT and I was able
] to pull up almost all of the articles that the search
] produced. Some are from quite some time ago. There was only
] one exception. One article came up as an abstract.

Every NYT-authored article older than thirty days is presented only as an abstract. You have to pay on a per-article basis for the full text.

Wire stories (Reuters, AP, AFP, etc.) are still available, only because NYT is not in a position to charge for them (from an IP standpoint).

Per-item fees are not the way to go here. Subscription services are the only compelling offering, in my view. The thing is, I already have that.

Case in point: article linked in my MemeStream, 'Telecom Giants Retrench in Europe'. Following the NYT link offers the abstract, wants me to pay $3 to read it. At this point, I will just use my Lexis-Nexis subscription to retrieve the article. It's a few clicks away.

] I would think this would be a cause you would take up, Jeremy.
] In the past you have often advocated the idea that you would
] rather pay for web content then have to endure advertisments...
] You seem to be changing your position on that...

No I'm not. I've advocated a subscription model as an option in lieu of advertisements. NYT does not appear to be offering a subscription service here. If I wanted to use NYT as a research source, I would not pay $3/article for 100 articles. Give me a break. And if I'm going to spend $100 for old newspapers (ostensibly for "multi-packs"), I should be able to get whatever I want, whenever I want it.

Given that the NYT archive is already in LN, the right price point for an NYT-only archive will have to be pretty low.

RE: NYT Archive Disappears from the Net