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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12448)	12/13/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Gold Beach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

Chinmoy Roy: I received the Forbes advanced article on my AOL mail site. It states: In WORLD WEARY WEB (p.98), Luisa Kroll, Julie Pitta and Daniel Lyons report that the Web has lured thousands of companies into spending billions to get a foothold in cyberspace-but that the payoff they had envisioned for selling ads has been a bust: On the Web, more than 1,300 sites sell ads, and 80% of ad inventory goes unsold. Leftover time gets dumped at fire-sale prices. Commissions run as high as 70%. That isn't a business model; it's a equation for failure.