New York Times frees its content (mostly)

As announced today, the New York Times will begin making the following content freely available from its web site and no longer locked by behind a paywall:

• content published from 1851-1922
• content published from 1987-present

This change in policy will become effective after midnight this Tuesday (September 18). The Times states that it realized it could make more from advertising revenue than from people paying for content.