March 15, 2007

TimesSelect is now free if you have an "edu" email address.

Cool!
Posted by Ann Althouse at 7:59 PM
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7 comments:

Biggus Geekus said...

And on March 14, the New York Times will discover what today's college students think of copyright law!

3/15/07, 8:29 PM
Daniel said...

Many universities offer alumni "permanent" email addresses which can be forwarded to other addresses. In my case I have an "alum.mit.edu" address. Just for the heck of it, I used it a few minutes ago to sign up for TimesSelect (I had to lie about my graduation year). It worked.

Not that I'm really interested in reading the TimeSelect content; I was just curious if they are effectively opening it up to alumni as well.

3/15/07, 8:49 PM
sbutler said...

This was covered over on MetaFilter a couple days ago. Check the comments: people had various results.

(Personally, I've been reading Times Select articles for months through my univ's LexisNexis access)

3/15/07, 9:30 PM
KLDAVIS said...

Pfft...I just tried to register my alumni.uchicago.edu address and received: "The e-mail address you provided is not eligible to receive a discounted subscription at this time."

-kd

3/16/07, 12:17 AM
MadisonMan said...

Sure, you register and give them your .edu email address, and I get enough spam there already, thankyouverymuch.

3/16/07, 9:30 AM
Ann Althouse said...

yetanotherjohn: I have had a subscription to the paper NYT for more than 20 years. I never paid extra for TimesSelect.

3/16/07, 12:44 PM
Smilin' Jack said...

Ann Althouse said...
yetanotherjohn: I have had a subscription to the paper NYT for more than 20 years. I never paid extra for TimesSelect.

In fact, you were presumably paid by TS as a TS columnist last week.

Didn't you used to sneer at TS as counterproductive and self-defeating...until you went over to the dark side of the pay wall? Haven't heard a peep from you on the topic lately .

3/16/07, 2:45 PM

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