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acidbyte said:Just got this e-mail,
Dear STi Reader,
You are getting this email from the ST Interactive team as you are among
the more than 280,000 of our registered users.
We thank you for your interest in the website and would like to inform
you about a major change coming to STI in March: After 10 years of
giving ST news reports out for free online, STI will begin charging
readers to access it.
A subscription will cost S$72 for six months (S$12 a month), or S$120
for a year (S$10 a month). A one-month subscription will cost S$15.
Why are we doing this?
We believe that we have a good and valuable product that users will want
to pay for. It's also not a tenable business model to charge for the
print edition of the newspaper and not for its online edition.
You will want to know whether you will get anything more, now that you
have to pay.
The answer is yes.
You will notice that up till now, you get only three reports from Life!
and Sunday Life through the week. If you subscribe, all the showbiz
gossip and lifestyle features you see in the print edition of Life will
be available online.
The weekly tech magazine Digital Life is available online now but a day
after its print edition goes out with the newspaper. If you subscribe,
Digital Life and the health magazine Mind Your Body -- now not online --
will become available from 6am on the same day they are distributed
with the newspaper. The fashion magazine Urban will also go online, but
later this year.
All news reports in the Money section will be available from 6am daily,
instead of 6pm.
The last perk is that the archive will grow from the current three-days
to seven-days. This means you can search back a week's worth of STI
editions.
The above extras are what you will get if you take up a subscription, in
addition to what STI currently offers -- ST print edition news,
current day breaking news, webspecials and photo features.
To give you a taste of what you will get in the bumped-up STI, the
website will be accessible free to registered readers like yourself for
two weeks from March 1 till 14.
You have these two weeks to browse and sign up.
Since you are already a registered reader, you will NOT need to fill in
your details again. We already have them. You will only need to indicate
that you want to take up a subscription and provide your credit card
details.
From March 15 onwards, the site will become a subscribers-only website.
Your subscription will take effect in April.
STI also has group subscription rates for institutions and companies.
The larger the number of users in the group, the deeper the
subscription discount. Do call (65) 6388-3838 or email stics@sph.com.sg
for these rates.
We hope you will stay with us. STI aims to continue being your link to
news on Singapore, the region and the world.
Yours sincerely,
The team at ST Interactive
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.
Co. Regn. No. 198402868E.
Hmmmmm......*sigh*
Hahah, when they start to want pple to register, I know that they are going to charge for subscription soon. After all, for this money minded company, where got really free stuff one rite?? ;p
aiyah. dun need to bother abt espn. all the hard-core nikonians are all at hdb hub now, drooling over the D2x... sigh... can i go AWOL from camp? :cry:
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