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From Clusterstock:

Other than the Denver Post, which got all the Rocky Mountain News subscribers when that paper shuttered, The Wall Street Journal is the only newspaper in the top 25 to add to its circulation this year.

And though this turn of events probably has as much to do with subscription discounting as anything, everyone likes to say the Journal is adding subscribers at least in part because it's erected a paywall online. We've even come out and said the troubled New York Times should follow the Journal's lead.

But all solutions have their problems, and it'd be unfair of us to not point out that you can't completely have your cake and eat it, too--at least if you want Google traffic in addition to subscriber traffic.

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