[efoods]The New York Times Company is considering charging a fee for access to its website, and has begun asking its print edition subscribers how such a charge would affect their subscriptions.

In a survey targeting existing subscribers, the media company said it was “considering charging a monthly fee of five dollars to access its content, including all its articles, blogs and multimedia.”

The survey then asks: “How likely would you be to pay a 2.50 dollar monthly fee — which would be a 50 percent discount for home delivery subscribers — for continued, unlimited access to nytimes.com?”

At present, users can access all content on the nytimes.com website for free, but the company has experimented with access charges before.

Read entire article

The Emergency Election Sale is now live! Get 30% to 60% off our most popular products today!