The problem is, once WoW goes away, the paid subscription model may go along with it.
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Both units, for instance, are working with music labels to offer a paid subscription music-streaming service.
Hulu, the TV streaming site, and Netflix, the paid subscription service, will be among the first to adopt the new features.
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Last year, the Seattle Pi revealed that about 56% of Live members had upgraded to the paid subscription service, Gold.
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Operating on a ad-supported or paid subscription model, the streaming music product has been in the works and rumors have been swirling.
And how can portions of a monthly paid subscription service be free?
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The new publication, to be called Newsweek Global, will operate on a paid subscription basis and be distributed via tablets and the internet.
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The newspapers that now have paid subscription apps, namely The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, both charge for full online access.
Meanwhile Amazon has launched a paid subscription service which many see as a rival to Netflix, although to what extent this proves to be true is not necessarily clear.
Unlike music and film, nearly all television is free at the margin: once a household has paid its subscription, it costs nothing to watch another show.
Yale viewed the paid-subscription trend in September as an illustration that the month-over-month growth path has returned to the normal third quarter growth range, as he had expected, following a strong August.
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Emusic.com, another once-independent site pulled into this corporate fold, is a paid site with two subscription levels.
Nearly a fifth (19%) of mobile news consumers has paid for a digital subscription of some kind in the last year.
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The membership subscription is paid annually so new members can join and become owners at any time, adding to the club's finances.
Nearly a fifth of mobile news users, 19%, have paid for a digital news subscription of some kind in the last year, and a third of tablet news users with digital subscriptions have added them since they acquired the device.
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The thing that kept him from an honor violation was that he paid for his own cable TV subscription.
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Eventually the company could add a subscription model as well as paid services for music companies or bands to use Cull as a promotional channel.
While download services like iTunes provide roughly 70% of total digital-music revenue, the IFPI report found rapid growth in subscription- and advertising-based streaming services, which had 20 million paid subscribers in 2012.
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While some publications, including The Wall Street Journal, have had online subscription services for years, the industry as a whole has waded gingerly into paid content.
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While management has kept mum on any recent updates on the digital subscription front, it would not hurt NYT to release some fresh figures on their paid subscriber count (which are expected to have increased since July) to pacify its investors.
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