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Amid all the bleak news for newspapers, there's something good going on: Subscribers are sticking with their papers for longer -- and frequently paying more.

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday – reserving its online content for paid subscribers and hoping its advertisers will stick around despite the smaller Internet audience. Variety plans to shut off free access gradually, asking one in 10 visitors for a user name and password that will be sent to paying subscribers.

The New York Times added 281,000 digital subscribers in its most recent quarter - enough to keep its overall circulation revenues flat, but not enough to offset a drop in advertising.

Experimenting with new business models in epubs: "For the first time, customers can subscribe to unlimited reading of as many as 32 titles from five different publishers through one app, with one user interface, at one price."

WSJ.com and social networking--new experiment (started Tuesday, September 16).

AT&T will start sending copyright warnings to subscribers when identified as infringers by ISP

Rupert Murdoch's new weekly pricing plan for The Wall Street Journal's mobile app looks steep, but it should reinforce the value of subscribing to the paper.

The Christian Science Monitor ceases print publication and move to online only.

Remember that Radiohead experiment back in 2007, the one where they allowed free downloads of their latest album and asked listeners to pay what they felt was fair? Some say it was successful and others beg to disagree. Assuming Amazon...

I think that the debates over owning vs. subscribing, pricing vs. donating, supporting vs. freeloading are some of the most interesting aspects of the move to digital distribution. Would this work for Amazon? I think it was generally considered a success for Radiohead. I know I "bought" a copy.

It actually costs the NY Times less to buy everyone a Kindle than to print the paper.

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As the newspaper wraps up its assessment of the benefits and risks of restricting access to news on the Web, it is nearing a decision to charge its core online readers. " />

Paid content: Charging The New York Times Online's heaviest users preserves ad inventory but risks the readers most valuable for ad sales.

Hmm. This is British and talks about a primarily British (that I can tell) service marrying itself to Facebook, but it has interesting implications should others decide to adopt the same thing. "'There's been a big barrier to sign-up, we wanted to remove that and make it a seamless experience,' [Daniel Ek, Spotify co-founder] said in one tweet, apparently indifferent to the criticism that Spotify had just erected a barrier where there wasn't one before." "'We want to remove barrier to sign-up and create a more seamless experience...' he confirmed in a follow-up." Yep, it'll be completely seamless for the advertisers who want to target Spotify users, they can get all sorts of other info on them besides just that they downloaded Rebecca Black's "Friday"...Zuckerberg must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Two of the big three business magazines that have survived and thrived for decades spent the month either cutting staff or issues.