Buried in the last graph of a WSJ story about Microsoft was this tidbit: Android paid apps will be coming to the Market this week, according to “people familiar with the matter.”

The previous official line was “early Q1 2009″, and if you can believe it, we’re almost at the halfway point of this here Q1, so the timing makes sense. Hopefully this can jumpstart what is currently, still, a pretty quiet dev community. [WSJ]