Newspapers will be testing readers' willingness to pay for information online.

SAN FRANCISCO -- With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking print editions.

It looks like the talk will turn to action this fall, when some large newspapers are expected to put up Internet toll booths.

MICHAEL LIEDTKE, The Associated Press