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"The New York Times paywall is about to get stronger.\nIn an effort to nudge its readers toward the digital subscription plan it introduced last March, the publication announced on Tuesday it would be slicing the number of articles that can be accessed for free on NYTimes.com in half.\nReaders can now access 10 free articles on the site each month instead of 20. \nThe publication also announced that it had enrolled about 454,000 paid subscribers since launching the paywall. \nThese subscribers pay between $15 and $35 per month for access to the digital version of The Times depending on whether they opt for access to smartphone and tablet apps. Subscribers to the print version of The Times receive unlimited digital access at no additional cost.\nReaders can also access the publication's articles by clicking on links in blogs, search engines and social sites even after they reach their monthly limit. Many have used this exception to circumvent The Times paywall altogether. An enterprising Twitter account called @freeNYTimes, for instance, promotes this method by exclusively tweeting links to New York Times articles (The publication asked Twitter to disable the account due to trademark violation, but dropped the request after it stopped using The Times logo).\nThe publication did not change its policy regarding this type of access. The only restriction on accessing individual free articles through such links, which has been in place since the paywall's launch last year, is that readers who come to The Times articles through some search engines are restricted to accessing five free articles this way each day.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, SOMATUSCANI"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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