A lesson for The Scotsman?

Peter Preston in The Observer (here):

It's been the great debate since newspaper websites began. Do you charge for your most precious content, or not? Some (the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the FT) did. Others (the Guardian) kept almost all their services free and banked on page traffic to bring the ads in. And now? Debate over. The New York Times is going free. Rupert Murdoch is hinting at taking his WSJ down the same road. And the FT is looking pretty vulnerable - with 100,000 times a £98.99 subscription (or more) at risk if it drops charges as well.