Just a couple of weeks after Murdoch hinted that he'd look at dropping the Wall Street Journal's payment barrier, the title comes out and claims it now has one million paying subscribers.
Would it be crazy to go ad-supported with such a big, prepared-to-pay user base? This might still be one of the rare occasions that publishers can still get away with that paid-access model, especially as a special offer for new subscribers last quarter pushed the number up by more than 25% to 989,000.
