Yet Another Paywall Experiment Fails
Found on Techdirt on Friday, 09 April 2010
This time The Valley Morning Star, a small paper in Harlingen, Texas, decided in mid-2009 to implement a paywall.
The paywall, which launched the week of July 15th, cost $3.95 a month, 75 cents per day, or was included if you had a subscription to the print version of the newspaper.
In any case, after 8 months, the The Valley Morning Star took the paywall down, proudly proclaiming they "will be moving back to a completely FREE Web site."
They should have highlighted the reason for going back to free: not enough people thought it was worth to pay for the news.