I dont think they are learning fast enough. unfortunately they
are still trying their luck with subscription and offering freebies
which should be FOC in the first place.
THE PERKS TO BEING A SUBSCRIBER OF ST
INTERACTIVE
ST Interactive has been a free-access site since 1995. From Mar 20,
It will become a subscription website. Subscription rates will
depend on whether the subscriber is already buying the print
edition of the newspaper. Below we compare what readers are getting
before with what subscribers will get after March 20:
BEFORE The site offered only a three-day archive of its webpages.
This means that on Feb 1, 2005, a Tuesday, you would have been able
to search only as far back as Jan 29, a Saturday.
AFTER MARCH 20
The archive will become a seven-day one. This means that on April
1, 2005, a Friday, you'll be able to search back as far as March
25, the previous Friday.
BEFORE All reports in the Money section were accessible only after
6pm Singapore time.
AFTER MARCH 20
All reports in the Money section will be live on the site from
6am
Singapore time, along with the rest of the material on the
site.
BEFORE Only three reports from Life! and Sunday Life were
available.
AFTER MARCH 20
All reports from Life! and Sunday Life your source of info on
showbiz and lifestyle will be available online.
BEFORE The tech weekly magazine Digital Life was available online
but only from 2pm on Wednesday, a day and a half after its print
cousin was distributed with the newspaper.
AFTER MARCH 20
Digital Life goes online from 6am on Tuesday, the same day its
print
edition is distributed with the newspaper.
BEFORE The health weekly magazine Mind Your Body and the fashion
weekly magazine Urban were not available online.
AFTER MARCH 20
Both these magazines will be available online to STI subscribers
from 6am on the days they are distributed with the newspaper, that
is, Wednesdays for Mind Your Body and Thursdays for Urban. (Urban
will go online on Thursdays later this year.)
