Say farewell to the free Wall Street Journal on the iPhone.
According to Paid Content, News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch announced that readers of the WSJ on the Blackberry and iPhone will be charged $2 per week for the privilege of reading news through the respective apps. Online and print subscribers of the WSJ will only pay $1 a week. No time limit has been set yet, but Murdoch says it will be within the next few months.
The WSJ Mobile app ‘s App Store page has stated that access to ‘subscriber-only ‘ content would only be available without charge for a limited time, for as long as I can remember “ and there have been hints within the app at times as well.
I decided a while back that I was not going to get attached to the app for just this reason. I like the app plenty, but I don ‘t need its particular brand of news badly enough to pay $50-100 per year for it.
What about you all? Do you need “ or just enjoy “ the WSJ ‘s content enough to pay up when they switch over to charging for it?
Via: TUAW
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