17,000 sign up for paid FT subscription

The FT has announced that 17,000 of its 2.8 million users have signed up for paid subscriptions since the FT introduced subscriber-only in May. It's not quite on the scale of the Wall Street Journal, which now has over 600,000 piad subscribers, but Marjorie Scardino described the rate of signup as "outstripping what we ewxpected".
(From MediaGuardian)