Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
Today I wanted to read this article on Time Online. It seems that instead of offering everything for free they are now selling access to their articles. That by itself is not a problem, but the pricing is quite ridiculous. Reading just one article costs $2.50, regardless of its length. The article I wanted to read was 316 words long, and I wonder who would be willing to pay this much money for it, rather than just buying a paper copy of time. The reason I am so struck by this is, because a new video store opened here today, which has great selection and has tapes and DVDs for fifty cents per day. That would mean that I could rent five DVDs instead of reading this one Time article. Thanks, but I'll just read Time on paper and get all the articles, instead of paying this much for one article.
Posted by Can Sar at September 5, 2003 06:32 AM to category Miscellaneous | TrackBackActually, nothing has changed. The Times has always offered free access to current articles, but charged for old ones. If you can find a September 30, 2002 copy of the newspaper to buy, go for it, but you might have difficulties.
Posted by Albert on September 5, 2003 08:24 PMActually, I was talking about Time Magazine, not The Times. As far as I can remember, access to the Time archive was free, until about two years ago. Sorry if there was some confusion.
Posted by Can on September 8, 2003 04:29 AM