Starting a Subscription Service – where do I start? (ecommerce)

I’m starting a paid newsletter and dial in service for my site and am pretty clueless where to start and what to do.
I have a free newsletter and use aweber for that and they are very good – but were quite unhelpful about the logistics for a paid subscription service.

I will want to automate the whole thing – payment, subscription – monitoring who is still subscribed and renewed and who has unsubscribed, shopping carts, Sending the weekly mails & info, etc…

Does anyone know a service/company that provides this service, or how I can go about starting things off?

Here are a few sites who seem to have their act together:
https://orders.taipanpublishinggroup.com/DCT/WDCTKC30/onepageorderform.html
http://www.thetechnicaltraders.com/memberships/signup.php?price_group=1

I very much appreciate any advice.

 

Have a look at this link:

http://www.johnchow.com/how-to-start-a-money-making-membership-site-part-1/

It gave me many ideas a while back and it covers quite a bit of ground.. If I don't remember wrong it only came to part 5 or something like that, but its still a nice resource for subscription or membership sites

 

Brilliant - very interesting post - thanks. Now i just need the logistics

 

This can help you, nice script but costs you.

http://www.amember.com/p/