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...behalf of its content partners, the merchants who will set up shop there. That could help create a new market for information, based on people purchasing info by the bit, for tiny sums of money. Want to see yesterday's front page of, say, a newspaper called the Wonkonkoma Times? It will cost you 2¢. Want to see this minute's headlines? That's a dime. Such small transactions are uneconomical for credit-card companies but essential to Net commerce: if 10 million people are on the network and a million of them buy today's headlines, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A REVIEW: MICROSOFT'S BEACHHEAD IN CYBERSPACE | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

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