March 16, 2007
STUDENT DISCOUNT
The New York Times removed online access to most of its Opinion columnists a few years ago, making that and other content only available to print subscribers and those willing to pay a subscription fee to get just the now-designated TimesSelect material online. As much as I was enjoying writing about Maureen Dowd's constant need to embarrass herself in print, the thought of paying for the privelege was beyond even my sense of humor.
Fortunately, Editor & Publisher recently wrote that The Times is intent on capturing the hearts and minds of college kids and their faculty. They're now offering TimesSelect material free to anyone with an .edu suffix on his or her email address. What's even better--and this might be something The Times forgot to consider is that almost everyone who graduated from college in the last 15 years has an .edu email address from their alma mater. Schools use them as a way to keep in touch with their alumni base and most collegiate mailing systems work more as forwarding engines to whatever address an alumnus chooses.
If you'd like to dust off your old .edu address and receive TimesSelect features and content for free for at least the next four years, sign up here.
NB: If the ability to read Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich doesn't seem like a compelling enough reason to sign up for TimesSelect, do it for the Archives. Subscribers can retrieve up to 100 articles per month from The Times archives, going back to 1851. That alone is worth the price of admission, which is free with that .edu address from your school days.
Posted by Lexiphane at March 16, 2007 6:00 PM
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