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One of the UK's biggest newspaper firms is to charge for access to online content from six of its titles. The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles, or direct them to buy the newspapers.

Johnston is the first regional publisher in the UK to trial asking readers to pay for its online news.

Sites in the pilot scheme include the Worksop Guardian, the Ripley & Heanor News, the Whitby Gazette and the Northumberland Gazette are also included in the trial. In Scotland, the Carrick Gazette and Southern Reporter are taking part.

Are we now going to start seeing more websites charging for access to their content?

I myself read the daily news online but would not pay for it! - What are your views?


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I think if actual delivery were no longer done via hand (Paper form), then a fee for online access would definitely be a good idea. Especially if the company is starting to lose a lot of customers. Most of the population of the UK, US, Australia, etc - have computers - and most people who have computers also have internet access. That gives people the right to favor the Internet news sources over their actual newspaper.

If they no longer printed paper copies then it would be understandable but as is companys print and provide free online, I understand that they will be losing money by people viewing online but I hardly ever bought a paper, so in my case they have a customer they never had before and likewise for a lot of the people I work alongside.

If the sun or the bbc started charging I would go elsewhere where I didn't have to pay.

I think they would do a sample service right? To see if customers like the news source...

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