Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Money-saving methods to avoid online news subscription paywalls

If you are an internet news addict with limited funds, the move toward news paywalls could possibly be awful news. No news is bad news. But there is another way. With a few end-around, you can avoid those paywalls and get your news for free or at low cost. Post resource – Money-saving ways to avoid online news subscription paywalls by MoneyBlogNewz.

Everything you want from news at Google

The best part of Google News is access. A lot of news sites are brought to one place. It is a good place to get your daily news fix. there are local news and top news categories. Anybody loves the clear and simple format it has.

Read the newspaper in an app

Newspapers are an app at the Apple App Store that you pay $1.99 for to be able to get links to all online newspaper web sites. Read articles on your iPod, iPhone or iPad in Safari. You can download stories and read them later. Instapaper is an example of an app to do this with.

RSS feeds popular

RSS feeds are a fantastic way to keep up with the news that’s significant to you, and Reeder does it the clean and simple way. It reformats the page to make it easier to read the stories. The iOS app also has an interface that is newspaper style. Get it for Apple device for only $2.99.

Zite app

The free iPad app Zite acts as a kind of "personalized magazine," claims Business Insider. It recommends news you might like, via connections to your Twitter and Google Reader accounts. It can help to just pick articles in the app you might like.

Do not pay for Associated Press and CNN apps

Mobile apps by the Associated Press and CNN are good iOS and Android options for world, national and local news. The AP app allows users to pick a favorite broadcaster. Then, the stories can be followed of that person. there are great videos accessible in the CNN app. It also has an iReport feature that lets users submit photos of news events.

How to get free access to NYT and The Daily

Users on Twitter have had access to NYT Twitter feeds. They can create a list for this. There is a 20 article a month limit by the Times to stay free. The Twitter and blog posts do not count towards this. A similar process work with The Daily, which is indexed by the blog The Daily: Indexed.

Right now, there is a five per day limit on free referrals for NYT which may not apply to other search engines such as Bing, according to MediaMemo's Peter Kafka.

Why did the Times put up a speed bump for Google? Google might be used by users to get in without having to pay by simply typing in the article name.

Citations

AP

ap.org/mobile/

Business Insider

businessinsider.com/how-to-get-around-paywalls-2011-3

CNN

cnn.com/mobile/iphone/

The Daily Index

thedailyindexed.tumblr.com/

What to expect with the NYT paywall

youtube.com/watch?v=jOkvPOY3VKU



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