This guy needs a sabbatical.

Today we started removing items from our free Web site - comics, letters to the editor, puzzles, TV grid and letters to the editor.

The idea is to wean people off the free Web site and either get them to buy the print version or the e-edition, which is just a PDF of the paper.

Anyone have any experience doing this? What do you think of taking editorials off the free site?

We haven't figured out a way to charge for the whole Web site, so I think we're going with this piece-meal approach until we do.

Thoughts?

Mark C. Mahoney
Editorial Page Editor
The Post-Star
Lawrence & Cooper Sts.
Glens Falls, NY 12801
518.742.3220
Blog: Your Right to Know: www.poststar.com/blogs/?cat=50

Yeah, I have a thought. Spend some time on the Internet browsing newspaper sites. Notice anything? Keep at it--you'll get it before long.