DENVER—ap Inc. is launching a pay wall for some content on the websites of 23 of its smaller newspapers in California, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
Home pages, classified ads, obituaries and announcements would always be free, and readers would have access to five pages of editorial content per month for free before they would be asked to sign up for a digital subscription starting Monday.
Print subscribers can have full digital access for $1.99 extra per month or $19.99 per year. People who want only digital subscriptions can sign up for $5.99 per month or $59.99 per year.
The digital subscription model doesn’t cover the company’s larger newspapers like The Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, The Salt Lake Tribune or The Detroit News.
