Starting in 2011, the New York Times is to charge for frequent access to its website accounting to an announcement overnight. If publishers can improve the revenue model outside of print – for website access or access via protable devices – it will focus their attention more on these print alternatives.
Personally, I don’t see myself paying for online access. I tried this a while back with a couple of newspapers but stopped when I found alternatives for the content I was after.
As anyone in business knows, it is hard to charge for something which was previously free.