So now have to switch to ready todayonline liaos... hahaha.. Wat a joke to coerce us into payin for online content.. As if payin for a connection is not enuff already.. Hahaha
On a serious note, can anyone tell me when will this payin thingy come to an end.. Fed up
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SINGAPORE'S most-read English language news website, The Straits Times Interactive (STI), will no longer be a free-access one.
Come March 15, access to the 10-year-old online version of The Straits Times will be by subscription only. It will be only the second internet news site in Singapore to do this after The Business Times.
Three subscription plans will be available: Readers can choose to pay $15 a month, $72 for six months or $120 for a year.
The managing editor of Singapore Press Holdings' English and Malay Newspapers Division Patrick Daniel explains the reason for the change:
'We believe that we have a good and valuable product that users will be prepared to pay for. It's also not a tenable business model to charge for the print edition, and not for the online edition.'
So with STI going from 'free' to 'fee', what extras can readers expect?
For one, all news reports from Life! and LifeStyle on Sundays will be available to subscribers. The website now offers only three Life! and LifeStyle reports.
Another perk: Money reports will be available from 6am instead of only after 6pm as is the case now.
A third extra: The English daily's weekly supplements - the health magazine Mind Your Body and fashion magazine Urban - now not online, will become available to subscribers.
The tech supplement Digital Life will also be available to subscribers from 6am on Tuesday - the same day its printed edition goes out with The Straits Times, instead of late on Wednesday.
The website will also offer a seven-day archive of its pages, up from the current three days. This will be a boon to those who have fallen behind on the news.
STI users will be able to browse the beefed-up edition from March 1 to 14 and sign up for a subscription if they wish to.
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