One reason is that building paywalls has become easier: Press+ and Google’s One Pass will collect online subscriptions on behalf of newspapers, skimming a little off the top.

一个原因是建立付费墙更加容易：Press+和谷歌微支付系统将代表报业争取用户，从中赚取佣金。

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The only exception here is the Wall Street Journal, which is really a special case, and only time will tell if readers are willing to buy online subscriptions to their favorite papers.

唯一的例外是《华尔街日报》，只有时间才能验证读者是否愿意付费订阅自己喜欢的报纸。

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With ad markets suffering amid the global economic downturn, observers in the newspaper industry are revisiting the controversial issue of charging online subscriptions for newspaper content.

在全球经济滑坡的形势下，广告市场正在遭受磨难，报业观察人士因此重新提到了一个曾引起争议的问题，即对报纸内容采用网络订阅模式。

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"And we're seeing very strong growth in subscriptions and subscription revenues." FT's online readers can currently access up to 10 free stories per month before being prompted to subscribe.

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Witness the turn around the New York Times is enjoying with its paywall-driven growth in online subscriptions.

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The jury's still out on The Times and Sunday Times, which are offering low-priced packages to help a migration to online subscriptions.

BBC: Paper Tigers

The boldest conglomerate is News Corporation, which sells online subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal and will begin charging for the newspaper's smart-phone applications.

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