Haymarket goes behind a paywall
PUBLISHER Haymarket yesterday revealed plans to put up a paywall to charge for its online magazines.
Haymarket, owned by Lord Heseltine, is following a similar model to the Financial Times’s “metered model” as registered
users get free access to a set number of articles per month before having to pay.
From July, subscribers will be able to choose online and print together (£199+VAT a year), online only (£155) or print only (£155 per title).
Any online subscriber will get access to all of Haymarket’s specialist media titles, which are already grouped together under the name Brand Republic.
Haymarket remains “committed” to print, it insisted yesterday. Heseltine’s firm has sold or closed several print titles, including Media Week, which went online only in 2009.
Other groups have been introducing pay walls and closing print versions.
Last month, Incisive Media’s Accountancy Age and TechTarget’s Computer Weekly went online only.