After what appears to have been a month or so of experimenting, Time Inc. has walled off the full content of Time magazine online. Magazine articles are now presented in "abridged" form with a note funneling readers to either subscribe to the print product or buy an iPad app to see the full stories.  

To be sure, magazine content is a very small portion of what's freely available on the site overall. According to a spokesperson, who confirmed the new strategy,  90 percent of Time.com's content is considered "original," meaning non-magazine content.

On the site, non-subscribers are presented with a portion the magazine story with a notation at the start that says "The following is an abridged version of an article that appears in the July 12, 2010, print and iPad editions of TIME."

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