All things free must come to an end, right? So it is for the post-2007 free Internet access to nytimes.com content.

According to New York Magazine, “Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its Web site, according to people familiar with internal deliberations.” In the running for potential new payment structures are a metered pay system and a model in which specific portions of the site are free while others are available by subscription only.

Read more at New York Magazine.