British tabloid The Sun drops paywall

Add another one to the list of news organizations pulling down paywalls and dropping tablet apps. The Sun, the British tabloid owned by News UK, is dropping its paywall and also killing off its tablet app as of November 30.
Sun+, which cost £7.99 per month, had 225,000 subscribers as of December 2014, the last time it released a number. The paywall covered The Sun’s websites (including the Irish and Scottish versions), its mobile app, and the “Sun Goals” soccer-related smartphone and tablet app.
All of those will now be free. In addition, The Sun noted in an FAQ Friday that it’s getting rid of one of its tablet apps, while keeping — and continuing to charge for — another iPad app. “The Sun is moving to having a uniform digital presence across smartphone, tablet and online,” a spokesman told me.
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