Word: timesselect
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...Times has tried the charging-for-content trick twice before. In the early days of the Internet, it charged for access from overseas readers, and from 2005 to 2007, it tried TimesSelect, in which readers had to pay for access to its signature columns and opinion pieces. That experiment was abandoned, perhaps partly because the writers chafed at the limits this put on their reach, but also because it limited the advertising play. TimesSelect attracted 210,000 people, according to the newspaper, at about $50 a throw. As the recession set in and the Times' balance sheet began to look...