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To: RealSmith who wrote (9313)	4/4/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

1/14/98 Times Union (Alb.) D9 1998 WL 7240499 Times Union (Albany, NY) Copyright 1998 Wednesday, January 14, 1998 Life & Leisure Online bookstore opens on AOL Barnes & Noble is paying America Online $40 million to be the exclusive seller of books on the nation's largest online service. For the next four years, Barnes & Noble Inc. will be able to sell books on AOL's network and display ads to the service's 10 million subscribers. Amazon.com and other major online book sellers will not be able to advertise on AOL, although subscribers could still access their sites through the service's World Wide Web connection. -- Associated Press Microsoft's 'e-zine' costs Slate, Microsoft Corp.'s magazine on the World Wide Web, will begin charging for subscriptions. Publisher Rogers Weed says neither the price nor the timing of the move had been determined, but with about 140,000 readers, it was finally feasible to charge subscription fees. Slate debuted in June 1996 with Michael Kinsley, formerly of The New Republic, as editor and a plan to bill readers $19.95 for a year's subscription. In his introductory column, Kinsley wrote: "We believe that expecting readers to share the cost, as they do in print, is the only way serious journalism on the Web can be self-supporting." But billing problems and readers' grumblings caused Slate to "chicken out," as Kinsley said early this year. Slate is the second-largest e-zine on the Web, after HotWired, a publication from Wired Ventures Inc. with about 800,000 registered members. It is free. -- New York Times ---- INDEX REFERENCES ---- COMPANY (TICKER): America Online Inc.; Barnes & Noble Inc. (AOL BKS) NEWS SUBJECT: High-Yield Issuers (HIY) INDUSTRY: Limited Product Specialty Retailers; All Specialty Retailers (OTS RTS) SIC: 7370 EDITION: THREE STAR Word Count: 230 1/14/98 TIMESUN D9 END OF DOCUMENT