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It'll take at least a few months for News Corporation to figure out if implementing a paywall around TheTimes.co.uk was a good idea. That it took The Guardian all of one day to start pointing and laughing is no surprise.
As of 1 July, Rupert Murdoch's The Times and The Sunday Times became the latest guinea pigs in the online paywall experiment, with readers having to stump up £1 for a month's access. Well, that's the special for the first month - prices will rise steeply from August, with £1 only buying you a single day's access, or £2 getting you a full week's subscription.
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