In the UK, the Times newspaper has thrown a paywall around its online presence. If you want to read any of its articles of comment pieces, you need to subscribe. You can visit the front page, but if you click on any of the links it takes you to a subscription page.
Now the amount may be small, £1 per 24 hours, or £2 for a week subscription, but it is already enough to reduce their traffic by over 60% and a lot of those people have gone to other sites for their news.
Was this a wise move by the Times?
If they keep just 10% of their reader base, who are willing to pay a subscription, then they will make a tidy profit. Will we see other major news organisations following along having been shown they can make a profit on it.
Or are there too many bloggers and free sources of news to make this worthless?