Digitimes cuts web news access

It formerly cut off public access to its English language stories online after two weeks, the web site said.

A notice on its web site said that a subscription to access its full news and views database means registering as a premium member which costs $270 a year.

For that price, you can also register for a daily news email.

You get content to over 18,000 articles and reports and "an almost unlimited" number of financial charts and data tables.

You can contrast that with the INQUIRER. We do not restrict any of our articles but have an "ad free" site which also offers a PDF every week with information that hasn't yet appeared on the INQUIRER.

Our service costs $50 a year, or $5 a month, and you can create an account here. In addition you can register for the INQbot, which provides the very occasional daily news flash and a weekly summary of all of our stories for nothing. You can register for that, and unsubscribe at whim.

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