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NewsPage Direct

NewsPage Direct Overview
What Will My Issue Look Like?
How Much Does NewsPage Direct Cost?
How Do I Sign Up For NewsPage Direct?
How Do I Make Changes To My Issue?
Other Questions

NewsPage Direct Overview

NewsPage Direct is Individual's new personalized electronic news service that's customized to your individual news requirements and is delivered right to your electronic doorstep. Once you've built your custom news profile, your personalized issue of NewsPage Direct will appear in your e-mail box every weekday morning containing the day's headlines and news-briefs relevant to your needs. Full-text stories can be found, as always, right here on NewsPage. Register now to start receiving your own personalized issue of NewsPage Direct.

NewsPage Direct is based on personalized news profiles. You can select up to 10 topics from the 2300+ topics available on NewsPage, and prioritize these topics. We've found that 3 to 5 topics works best, providing you with an informative daily briefing without spreading your issue across too broad an area.

Your daily issue of NewsPage Direct will include current story headlines and news briefs from these selected and prioritized topics. You will receive headlines and news briefs for up to 20 stories each day. Your issue will also include the URL for the topics in your news profile, so you can jump to NewsPage with your web browser and get the full-text versions of the stories you find compelling.

What Will My Issue Look Like?

Here's a small sample issue of NewsPage Direct. You can see that the issues are personalized for each user. They include an introductory area at the top, and the day's relevant news for that user with headlines and news briefs for up to 20 articles.

Sample Issue of NewsPage Direct

                                                 Monday, January 1, 1996
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                 John Q. Public's NewsPage Direct (tm)
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A single-user information service              No redistribution allowed

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INTERNET OVERVIEW
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|Sponsor|   InfoSeek Corporation
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>> INTERNET TIME MEANS LESS TV - Internet users spend an average of 6.6
   hours a week on the Net, time they used to spend in front of the 
   TV tube or talking on the phone, according to a survey released 
   Thursday.  The survey reported 9.5 million Americans, or 3.6 percent
   of the population, now use the Internet, including 1.1 million children 
   under 18, said Thomas E. Miller, who directed The American Internet
   User Survey. [Associated Press, 896 words]

>> MICROSOFT'S SUPER BOWL PLOY - PUTTING SOFTWARE IN 73,000 SEATS AT SUN
   DEVIL STADIUM - Super Bowl XXX isn't until January 28, but it's
   already clear who's going to score first -- Microsoft. The giant
   software company plans to give away more than 73,000 copies of its
   World Wide Web browser, tucking a CD-ROM disc into every seat in
   Arizona's Sun Devil Stadium. [San Francisco Chronicle, 789 words]

>> SYMANTEC TO BUNDLE CAFE, JAVA DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT WITH SYMANTEC
   C++ FOR POWER MAC CAFE TO BE PROVIDED FREE-OF-CHARGE TO CURRENT
   SYMANTEC C++ FOR POWER MAC - Symantec Corporation today announced
   that it will be bundling Symantec Cafe, the Macintosh version of its
   Java development environment, with Symantec C++ for Power Mac.
   Additionally, Symantec Cafe, ... [PR Newswire, 526 words]

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TELECOMMUTING
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>> ****BURIED BY "BLIZZARD OF '96," EAST COASTERS TELECOMMUTE - All
   along the East Coast yesterday, businesses were temporarily shut down
   by a one-foot to two-foot wall of snowfall. [Newsbytes, 899 words]

>> PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS PEOPLE TELECOMMUTE TO WORK AFTER BLIZZARD -
   PHILADELPHIA -- Paralyzed behind walls of snow, thousands of
   homebound people Monday tried the next-best thing to going to work:
   They reached for their phones. [The Philadelphia Inquirer, 729 words]

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How Much Does NewsPage Direct Cost?

NewsPage Direct costs only $6.95 per month, and includes the following features:

A personalized issue of NewsPage Direct, delivered directly to your e-mail box every weekday morning
Unlimited access to full-text versions of the majority of NewsPage stories, including all stories from the Basic Sources (designated by a ) and Premium Sources ()
Access to full-text versions of the remaining stories from the Pay Per View Sources () which have additional charges
Unlimited access to the NewsPage Search facility

How Do I Sign Up For NewsPage Direct?

To sign up now, please select the appropriate link below. Then sit back and let our information agents deliver the day's relevant news direct to you!

How Do I Make Changes To My Issue?

To change your issue content, go to the NewsPage Direct profiling tool and create a new news profile for yourself. This is the same tool used to set up your original news profile. A description of your current news profile is included at the end of each of your NewsPage Direct issues. Use this description to help you update your news profile. Update your news profile now.