Well it was probably inevitable the way that industry is going...
The move means online readers of the Calgary Herald, National Post, Financial Post, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Regina Leader-Post and Windsor Star will be asked to register for online accounts after reading 10 articles for free.
Print subscribers will continue to get full access to the newspaper's digital properties after completing a quick registration process. Digital readers who do not have a print subscription can pay $0.99 for the first month and then $9.95 a month thereafter.
Digital-only readers can also sign up for reduced subscription rate of $99.50 for an entire year.
I'm a bit torn as to whether I'll pay up - while I do want local news, the quality of the Herald's reporting has gone down the tubes. Not sure I want to pay $10/month for the republishing of PostMedia stories, sprinkled with with a few of Licia Corbella and Don Braid's ramblings. I do pay for the Globe - via a GlobeInvestor subscription so I don't mind paying for a decent service (as archaic as GI is currently....)
Anyone use other local news sites? I think I'm going to check out CFCN, CBC, and QR77's sites to see if they can replace local content.