Article: Consumer Reports Online Celebrates Its First Birthday With Help From Its 180,000 Paid Subscribers.

YONKERS, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1998--

The success of www.ConsumerReports.org indicates that Web surfers

are willing to pay for reliable information.

An average of 5,700 new paid subscribers join each week.

Celebrating its first birthday, Consumer Reports Online - the Web site from Consumer Reports magazine (www.ConsumerReports.org) -- has signed more than 180,000 paid subscribers. One of the most successful for-pay sites on the Internet, subscriptions have grown steadily, and continue to do so, since the site launched in November, 1997. Currently, an average of 5,700 new paid subscribers join each week.

"After only one ...

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