The Mail titles are charging up to £240 a year for readers to access their columnists online.
Dailymail.co.uk/Mailonsunday.co.uk was formally launched this week with heavy promotion in both Mail titles. The target is to achieve 600,000 unique users a month for the joint site within six months.
An Associated Newspapers spokesman said: “The new site will provide the online community, of which 52 per cent of the newspapers’ present nine million readers are members, with 24-hour access to breaking news, features and columnists.”
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Access to the site is mainly free, but visitors will have to subscribe to the interactive crosswords and to read columnists such as Lynda Lee-Potter, Richard Kay, Carole Caplin and Peter Hitchens. Weekly subscription packages start from £2 a week for access to one columnist, going up to £5 a week for access to all of them. Subscription to the interactive crossword is £19.95 a year.
Associated New Media editorial director Avril Williams said: “Updated 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the site will boast up-to-the-minute news topped off by a thriving community allowing users to talk back to the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday for the first time.”
By Dominic Ponsford
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