The Sun admits its paywall was a failure and scraps it

BBC News wrote:The Sun will scrap the paywall on its website just over two years after it was introduced.

Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of Sun owner News UK, told staff in an email it would make its online stories "largely free" by the end of November.

She said the plan would add readers.

The Sun first started charging customers £2 a week in August 2013. Other newspapers charging for access include News UK's Times newspapers and the Financial Times.

Ms Brooks rejoined Rupert Murdoch's News UK in September a year after she was cleared of conspiracy to hack voicemails, conspiracy to pay public officials and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

She replaced Mike Darcey, who had previously worked for BSkyB.

The Sun was first moved behind a paywall in August 2013, although its sister paper the Times made the change in July 2010, when Ms Brooks was in charge of the parent company.

It was the only one of the tabloids to charge for online content.

She said in the email: "As of November 1, Sun+ customers will no longer be billed for reading The Sun's digital content and we will be transitioning to a largely free world by the end of the month."

The Financial Times reported that among the paid-for features continuing would be the fantasy football game Dream Team.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34679817

Like people were ever going to pay for frivolous content available everywhere else for free.

strawberry float the Sun and everyone who reads it.

Most Scum readers have only vaguely heard of the internet and it scares them.

If they paid me I still probably wouldn't read it.

It's alright for me to read Striker though right :shifty:

Why do you read the sun kklein?

Next stop: the Sun admits it is a travesty and scraps itself

*crosses fingers*

To be fair it would be much better for them to go after the daily Mails crown as number one gooseberry fool heap on the web. There is a lot of money to be made from pumping out barely re written stuff from other news sources.

Proposer wrote:Why do you read the sun kklein?

boobs lol

That's actually the only understandable reason too

Sports coverage is often a valid reason for reading the Sun and the DM. DM has some good sports writers tbh.

Proposer wrote:Why do you read the sun kklein?

I don't buy any newspaper; I do pick up the Metro or Evening Standard though if I see it in the train station/Sainsbury's.

Skippy wrote:
Proposer wrote:Why do you read the sun kklein?

boobs lol

That's actually the only understandable reason too

The Sun stopped having boobs a few months ago, so no reason at all now.

Is there any reason to read any newspaper? Picking on The Sun seems odd considering it is just as bad as all the others.

Drumstick wrote:Is there any reason to read any newspaper? Picking on The Sun seems odd considering it is just as bad as all the others.

Just as bad?

twitter.com/scouser_andy/status/658176994882879488

They are in a league of their own when it comes to outright cuntery.

My local shop tried to give me a free copy of the sun when I bought some milk the other evening.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

bear wrote:

twitter.com/scouser_andy/status/658176994882879488

strawberry floating hell. :fp:

The Sun admits its paywall was a failure and scraps it

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