Dear Reader
We have received emails and phone calls from many of you on our
subscription plan for The Straits Times Interactive (STI). We thank
you all for giving us your feedback, which is important to
us.
An offer for print edition subscribers
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One common complaint was that many of you are already subscribers
to the print edition of The Straits Times and you feel we should
not make you "pay twice" for two similar products. We have
therefore decided to offer existing print subscribers a 50%
discount off the STI subscription rates.
With this change, print subscribers who want access to STI will
need to pay S$36 for a six-month subscription (or S$6 a month)
instead of S$72; the 12-month subscription rate will cost S$60 (at
S$5 a month) instead of S$120.
We hope that with these new rates, print subscribers will continue
enjoying the paper in the mornings as well as our paid-access
online offering.
The offer on group rates
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We have also received numerous enquiries from companies and
institutions for group-access rates.
Groups that are already subscribing to multiple copies of the print
edition will be eligible for special discounts. The discounted
group rates for print-plus-online bundles will be advised
later.
Group rates for online-only subscriptions (for non
print-subscribers) are as follows:
* 10 to 19 users: S$1,080 a year (a 10% discount)
* 20 to 34 users: S$1,920 (20% discount)
* 35 to 49 users: S$2,940 (30% discount)
* 50 to 74 users: S$3,600 (40% discount)
* 75 to 99 users: S$4,500 (50% discount)
For groups of 100 or larger, please call Customer Service at
6388-3838 during office hours or email [email protected]
Extended period to browse ST Interactive
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All registered readers will have from now till March 19 to browse
the new, beefed-up version of STI before it is closed off to
non-subscribers on March 20, instead of March 15 as originally
planned.
If you decide to take up a subscription, you may sign up for it
online from March 11. If you do so between March 11 and 19, you
will be given free access till the end of March. Your subscription
kicks in on April 1.
Free news still available at AsiaOne
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For those who don't want to sign up for online subscriptions, we'd
like to reiterate that a selection of free news from across the SPH
newspapers will still be available on our AsiaOne portal. We would
like to welcome you to this site: www.asiaone.com
Yours sincerely,
The STI Team
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.
Co. Regn. No. 198402868E.
