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created_at: '2016-01-22T15:48:17.000Z'
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title: The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
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url: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/22/business/the-new-york-times-introduces-a-web-site.html
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The Web-based Times is the newest of dozens of papers available to a
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global audience on the Internet's fastest-growing service, which lets
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computer users see electronic publications consisting of text, pictures
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and, in some cases, video and sound.
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A selection of the day's news, discussion forums and other material from
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The Times has been available through the @times service since the spring
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of 1994 on America Online.
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The Web site's global audience means a larger potential readership than
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that of @times, which is limited to America Online's subscribers,
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currently more than four million. The new site also offers new products
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and services.
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"Our site is designed to take full advantage of the evolving
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capabilities offered by the Internet," said Arthur Sulzberger Jr.,
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publisher of The Times. "We see our role on the Web as being similar to
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our traditional print role -- to act as a thoughtful, unbiased filter
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and to provide our customers with information they need and can trust."
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## Newsletter Sign Up
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[Continue reading the main story](#continues-post-newsletter)
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You must select a newsletter to subscribe to.
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You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New
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York Times's products and services.
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[View all New York Times newsletters.](/newsletters)
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The Web site will also offer access to much of what the newspaper has
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published the previous week and access to feature articles from as far
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back as 1980.
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Mr. Nisenholtz said that initially, at least, no subscription or access
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fee would be charged for readers in the United States and that the
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electronic paper would generate revenue from advertising. Readers who
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connect to the electronic paper from outside the country will be offered
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a 30-day trial without charge, but will eventually face a subscription
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fee.
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Advertisers that have already announced participation on the Web site
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include Toyota Motor Corporate Services, Chemical Bank and the Northeast
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real estate concern Douglas Elliman.
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Subscribers will have limited access to archives of Times articles and
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features dating to 1980, and will be able to copy articles to their own
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computers for $1.95 each, Mr. Nisenholtz said.
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Advertisement
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[Continue reading the main story](#story-continues-4)
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The new service will also offer, for a fee, a customized clipping
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service that delivers to a subscriber's electronic mailbox articles
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gleaned from each day's editions of the newspaper, based on key words
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the subscriber selects.
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With its entry on the Web, The Times is hoping to become a primary
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information provider in the computer age and to cut costs for newsprint,
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delivery and labor. Companies that have established Web-based
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information sites include television networks, computer companies,
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on-line information services, magazines and even individuals creating
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electronic newspapers of their own.
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"The New York Times name will get people to look at the product once or
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maybe twice, and the fact that The New York Times has the kind of reach
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and credibility it does may persuade people to look three or four
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times," said John F. Kelsey 3d, president of the Kelsey Group, a
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consultancy running a conference on interactive newspapers next month.
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"The market is booming for newspapers on the World Wide Web," Mr. Kelsey
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said.
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[Continue reading the main story](#whats-next)
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