Another change in terms of how newspapers are evolving come with an announcement from the New York Times and their “Times Select.” Just after 2 years of running their premium service the NYTimes is shutting this part of their site down and opening access to all of their news and editorial columnists.

This comes to me as a big duh! When I think of the internet I think of the word FREE. When you look at the big picture there are very few sites that have been able to maintain a paid model online (probably because they haven’t show the value). The Times are doing some great things SEO wise, so moving to this model makes perfect sense. Just imagine the amount of original content that the Times will have moving through the search engines now that they are opening up their archives from the past 20 years!

For more information read Staci Kramer’s story.