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Spending real money on things that don’t exist still sounds “fringe-y and aberrant” to many American consumers. Yet it has been going on for years in elaborate games like World of Warcraft or Everquest, as players buy tools, weapons and the like for digital characters.

Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

How to explain newspaper policy in referring to people with titles such as "Ms." instead of "Mrs." or mixing in the use of middle names like "Hussein."