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Washington Post to start charging frequent site users

The Washington Post won't be completely free online much longer.

The publication this summer plans to start charging users who access more than 20 articles or multimedia features a month. The Washington Post hasn't yet decided how much it will charge, according to an article on the newspaper's Web site.

Large portions of The Washington Post's audience will be exempt from fees, though, including home-delivery subscribers. Students, teachers, school administrators, government employees, and military personnel will have unlimited access to the Web site while in their schools and workplaces, the article said. And access to The … Read more

Barnes & Noble offers free Nook with NYT or People subscription

Barnes & Noble will give customers a free or discounted Nook e-reader when they purchase a one-year subscription to People or the New York Times, a limited-time offer--good through March 9--that's also one of the first major attempts to piggyback e-readers onto magazine or newspaper subscriptions.

"We're continuing to make it easier than ever for customers to get more out of their Nook device," Jonathan Shar, vice president and general manager of digital newsstand at Barnes & Noble, said in a press release. "And we are excited to offer our most popular content and leading … Read more

New York Times mistakenly e-mails millions about subscriptions

Editor's note: The headline and story have been updated to reflect the latest news.

The New York Times is now saying that a believed-to-be bogus e-mail that told millions of subscribers that their subscriptions had been canceled actually did come from the newspaper company. But the e-mail, which was meant for only 300 recipients, was instead sent to more than 8 million subscribers, a tweet from Amy Chozick, a media reporter for the Times states.

This morning millions of New York Times subscribers received an e-mail informing them that their subscription had been canceled and then went on to … Read more

Arianna Huffington to Bill Keller: Who you calling 'Oxpecker'?

Earlier today Bill Keller hurled some invective against Web aggregators in general and Arianna Huffington in particular.

It's a great, punchy read! But if you're in a hurry:

The New York Times' executive editor calls media commentators and media recyclers "oxpeckers who ride the backs of pachyderms, feeding on ticks."

He compares aggregators to pirates, then says that AOL's $315 million purchase of Huffington Post has been poorly described: "Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring … Read more

S&P 500 adds Netflix to its queue

Financial services company Standard & Poor's announced changes yesterday to its S&P 500 stock market index, a widely respected compendium of large-cap U.S. public companies: Netflix is on the list for the first time. In the same announcement, rather poignantly, S&P announced that newspaper giant The New York Times Co. has been demoted to its index of mid-size companies (the MidCap 400), as has photography equipment manufacturer Eastman Kodak.

Previously, Netflix had been on the MidCap 400 list.

Netflix has had one heck of a year, nearly a decade after it first went public … Read more

New York Times cooks up e-book best-seller list

In another sign that e-books are going mainstream, The New York Times will create a best-seller list for electronic content early in 2011.

The New York Times Best Seller List--around since 1935--will now also focus on e-books.

According to a statement, the Times will rank sales aggregated from online service providers selling e-books. The Times said it is working to process and verify the data. In addition, the Times has partnered with RoyaltyShare to validate e-book sales from various parties.

The list will appear in The New York Times Book Review in print and online.

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