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In Canada, every province or territory now has at least one on-line newspaper. Ontario leads the way with 91, Alberta has 44, and British Columbia has 43. Elsewhere in North America, Mexico has 51 on-line newspapers, 23 newspapers are on-line in Central America and 36 are on-line in the Caribbean. Europe is the next most wired continent for newspapers, with 728 on-line newspaper sites.
The Internet is also a gigantic encyclopedia, easily available for consultation by the libraries' staff and readers. Many newspapers and magazines' latest issues are available on-line, as well as "dossiers" on current events and archives equipped with a search engine to find information from previous issues.
If, however, publishers see that they are able to make multiple use of their investment, then obviously this is beneficial for all. Otherwise the costs associated with on-line services would increase considerably. As far as the European market is concerned, this would only increase competitive pressures, since United States publishers do not have to pay for multiple uses."
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I leave you to guess what the price would be in France, in Belgium or in Switzerland, where the local communications are billed by the minute, for the same number of hours on-line." It follows that many European surfers spend much less time on the Web than they would like, or choose to surf at night to cut their expenses.
Before the Web became widespread, the first electronic versions of newspapers were available through commercial services like America Online or CompuServe. Then the publishers of these newspapers created web servers. Other on-line newspapers and magazines did not originally exist in paper version. They are "only" electronic.
It is also a transactional service center, offering the ability to request subscriptions, advertising and list rental rates-for over 95,000 magazines, catalogs, newsletters, newspapers, and more. A year ago, only 29% of on-line newspapers were located abroad.
"For the first time, the Web appears as a direct and violent competitor, not only of newspapers handicapped by their periodicity but also of radios or televisions." As these two examples show, the introduction of the Web in the press, and vice versa, created a new type of press on-line, which offers almost instantaneous information, or in any case much quicker than that given by TV and radio.
Suddenly, the relationship between the on-line issue and the paper issue were inverted for the first time, an exclusive piece of news was not given by a paper issue but by an on-line issue. Less than one year later, the new mechanism was running fine.
Logos, an international translation company based in Modena, Italy, gives free access to the linguistic tools used by its translators: 200 translators at its headquarters and 2,500 translators on-line all over the world, who process around 200 texts per day.
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