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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (11369)	1/7/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Who's putting up tollbooths Among the information-based Web sites charging or planning to institute charges: Business Week. Will require subscription to read full contents of Business Week each week. No prices or dates. www.businessweek.com Consumer Reports. Ad-free Web site costs $24 a year to subscribe, $19 for print subscribers. www.consumer-reports.org Disney Daily Blast. $39.95 a year for kids' games, comics and learning activities. www.disneyblast.com The Economist. On-line subscriptions, $48 a year. www.economist.com Entertainment Weekly. A "special edition" site will be paired with print subscriptions ($23 a year for both) starting Jan. 20. www.ew.com ESPN. Though most of the site is free, $39.95 a year allows users access to such extras as fantasy sports. espn.sportszone.com MSNBC. Some databases and other specialized information will require subscriptions. No prices or dates. www.msnbc.com Money.com. Premium subscription to Money.com Plus, with extra articles and access to deep financial databases, costs $49.95 a year; $29.95 for print subscribers. www.money.com The New York Times. Plans to begin charging for access to newspaper archives sometime in the coming year. No prices given. www.nytimes.com Salon. Plans to introduce premium subscriptions this year, including membership privileges such as discounts on books, travel and concert tickets. No prices or dates announced. www.salonmagazine.com The San Jose Mercury News. The first newspaper in the world to charge for Web content, in 1994; about half the Mercury's content is available for free. For full newspaper contents, nonprint subscribers pay $59.40 a year; print subscribers, $35.40. www.sjmercury.com Slate. Announced it will become a subscription-only site by spring. No prices set. www.slate.com USA TODAY. Free search of newspaper archives, $1 per retrieval of archive material. www.usatoday.com The Wall Street Journal. On-line subscriptions, $49; $29 for print subscribers. www.wsj.com o~~~ O