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Salon.com
Founded in 1995, Salon Media Group is a leading new media company that produces an award winning Internet site, www.Salon.com, as well as two subscription-based online communities, The WELL and Table Talk. Salon logged 3.8 million unique visitors in July 2001, as audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Companies that have advertised on Salon include IBM, Lexus, PBS, Universal Studios, Hewlett-Packard, Ford, Sprint, Absolut, Powell's Books, Discover Card and Intel.
Salon Premium, the company's content-based subscription service launched in late April 2001 has generated over 50,000 of Salon Media Group's 65,000 subscriptions. Salon Premium provides subscribers with exclusive access to most of Salon.com's news and politics coverage, political columnists and additional content from its People and Sex sites.
Salon Premium also provides subscribers with special services such as the ability to download a day's worth of Salon content to their hard drives for offline reading, in either Adobe PDF or HTML text formats. The Well and Table Talk, Salon's community forums, allow users to view and post messages in moderated environments. Salon's subscription fees range from $6 per month and $30 per year for Salon Premium subscriptions to $180 per year for the highest priced Well subscription.
‘Community sites’ is another prominent category of subscription sites. If the membership of such a site grows and members find it valuable to share experiences and interact with each other, it would be offering an added benefit to members. People often want to hear from others who may have their experiences to narrate and gain valuable insights from these. Or you may just be interested in the opportunity of networking and meeting with like-minded persons for business or pleasure.
CarFax.com
Carfax.com empowers consumers with access to detailed histories on used vehicles. Visitors to the Web site need only enter a valid Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and for less than $20 they are instantly connected to important information that could impact their decision to purchase a car - information like salvage, flood and fire reports, ownership changes, liens, odometer fraud, and major accidents.
As the leading provider of vehicle history information, www.Carfax.com serves consumers with more than 1.2 billion records on approximately 300 million vehicles. This massive information repository is collected from a growing list of information providers including Departments of Motor Vehicles of various States, emissions inspection stations and private fleet management companies.

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