—Online fee timeline moved back?: Murdoch has said News Corp.‘s news sites all would start charging for content this fiscal year but he pulled back on that in today’s call. Asked by a reporter from the Daily Telegraph for an update, he replied: “No. We are working very, very hard at this but I wouldn’t promise that we’re going to meet that date. I’m not prepared to comment on that all. It’s a work in progress. There’s a huge amount of work going on, not just with our sites, but with other people like your company.”

—E-reader update: The un-love affair with Kindle continues. WSJ.com has doubled its take from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) - subscriptions were $10 with the paper getting $3.00; “we’ve lifted that to $15 of which we get $6.50, I think.”  Murdoch also dismisses it as a newspaper e-reader: “Kindle is a fantastic invention for reading books but not much of an experience for reading newspapers.”  As for the competition due for the holidays, “they’re all very early stage black-and-white efforts. We’ll certainly make ourselves available on them all provided that we get a fair share of the revenue.” Murdoch didn’t mention that Barron’s is now on the Kindle for $10.99 a month, about $131 annually. That compares to $5 for the print edition on the newsstand; he replica e-edition for $11 a month or $3.99 an issue; and an online-only subscription to Barrons.com for $79 a year.