The Times to Charge for Frequent Access to Its Web Site – the newspaper giant announced on Wed that they will charge user for access to the times content on the web.

I have no complain to their act. I am willing to pay for quality content. I used to read SCMP. But, as you may know, the editorial quality is really… so-so when compare with NYTimes. SCMP started charging some years ago. As that happen, I naturally ditched them.

The challenge should rather be devising a proper price scheme than arguing whether they should charge or not… We pay for music, apps and movies in iTunes Store. It makes total sense that newspaper, as one of the content publishers, wanna assert a paid model to the subscribers.

My concern is… the paid subscription should be focused on offering more features (or contents) to readers instead of just setting up a system which locks up access to content. Maybe all subscribers get access to the Timers Reader or some features about the reader community.

Hope they’ll come up with sth creative :)