We need to sell low-cost subscriptions to pay for the peer review process and to publish excellent journals that serve the worldwide scientific community.
Sports fans probably will want to keep it, as many leagues restrict online content, but casual viewers who mainly want some shows and movies to watch could get by with a good Internet connection and some low-cost subscriptions to services like Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Instant Video.
The NYT didn't then disclose the number of subscribers it had, but an internal company memo claimed that the experiment with lower-cost subscriptions was "much less successful".
Consumers will also continue to seek low-cost subscriptions, especially since there is a generous amount of content available on the web that doesn't cost anything aside from a data plan.
Fixed-cost subscriptions might also be paid by public funding agencies or not-for-profit organizations in respect of their long-term fixed demand for information to allow access to their grantees or employees at a nominal cost.
In such a model, the high fixed-cost subscriptions would typically be paid by for-profit organizations, whilst the marginal costs of providing the data or bioresources would be charged to end-users working in universities and not-for-profit organizations.
The company also announced plans to introduce lower-cost subscription models, part of a broader growth strategy.
Instead, fiction and non-fiction are now thrown together on low-cost subscription services that draw no distinction between the two.
FlexJobs.com, for example, is a low-cost subscription service that identifies and screens legitimate telecommuting jobs.
EGG-energy offers a low-cost subscription service to small, rechargeable batteries that can be used to light homes and charge small electronics.
"Where consumers are accessing high-cost subscription services, we have a system of double opt-in to make certain that they understand the full cost of the service," says Patrick Guthrie, director of strategy and communications at PhonepayPlus.
