Media News - Monday, November 05, 2007
WSJ.com hits 1 million subscribers
The Wall Street Journal said on Sunday that its Web site now has 1 million subscribers, a milestone for a site that charges for access even as other sites are throwing themselves open for free. It also comes as News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch, who is buying the Journal's parent company Dow Jones & Company Inc, contemplates scrapping the Journal's subscription model in favour of free access supported by advertising. Combined circulation for the print and electronic editions of the Journal fell 1.5 percent to 2.01 million for the six months that ended September 30, compared with the same period a year ago. The Journal attributed the drop to pruning its paid circulation lists of copies that it sells in bulk and at discounted rates. Print circulation was about 1.66 million, down 2.9 percent from 1.71 million in the same period last year. Online subscriptions have been rising. Dow Jones in October said paid subscriptions to WSJ.com grew 25.5 percent in the third quarter to 989,000, partially because of an offer for new subscribers to get both the print and online editions. Dow Jones cites the amount of subscribers to WSJ.com as proof that it is possible to charge for access to news when most news outlets have failed to pull it off. (Reuters)
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