Hi there,
Just a couple of points ahead of the list:
- If I don't list the number of subscribers, it is because the
information does not appear to be available, despite my searching.
- Some of the sites appeal to an international audience - I have made
sure that they are based in the UK, or focus on UK topics.
1. Metal Bulletin
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http://www.metalbulletin.com
Metal Bulletin's Internet news service offers access to all of the
contents of the twice-weekly Metal Bulletin and the monthly MBM-Metal
Bulletin Monthly, Live News, a Daily News Digest, News Archive,
Exchange Pricing, Market Analysis and a full historical archive of
over 625 price series, updating daily.
Price: Daily - single user £475/$750, Live - single user £1,050/$1,750
Number of subs: 1300 in August 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1513125.stm
Number of subs: 12,000 in Feb 2001 (I'm guessing it is a typo)
http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/ThisWeek.Features.View.aspx?ContentID=177
Company name: Metal Bulletin PLC
http://www.metalbulletin.plc.uk/
2. The Bookseller
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http://www.thebookseller.com/
Daily news email, bestseller charts, database of books due to be
published, access to archives.
Price: £99 inc. VAT per annum for Premium membership
Company: Bookseller Publications is a wholly owned subsidiary of VNU
Entertainment Media UK, which is owned by VNU Business Media Inc, a
VNU company.
http://www.thebookseller.com/inf_privacy.cfm
3. Oxford Reference Online
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http://www.oxfordreference.com
Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100
well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books into a single
cross-searchable web database for the first time.
Price: A variety of annual subscriptions, starting at £175/US$250 per
annum (ex VAT).
http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/1col/How_to_subscribe__subscribe.html
Company: Owned by Oxford University Press
4. The Times - Crossword Club
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,252,00.html
Interactive crossword puzzles online. Premium members get extra
puzzles and access to the archives.
Price: Basic - £7.99 per year, Premium - £19.99 per year
Subs: While Annelies van den Belt, Times Online's digital director,
claims that 30 per cent of the crossword club's original members are
now paying subscribers, News International is extremely coy about how
the site is faring overall. "That is commercially confidential
information," she says.
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=355084
Company: Times Newspapers Limited
5. Financial Times
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https://registration.ft.com/registration/sub/processLanding.jsp
News by email, access to archive, World Company Financials database.
Price: Limited - £65.00 a year, Everything - £150.00 a year
Subs: 20,000 - Nov 2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=355084
Company: Financial Times Ltd
6. Independent Crossword for PDAs
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http://www.roundpoint.com/live/custom/independentcw.html
Get the latest crosswords from The Independent delivered to your PDA
daily.
Price: Monthly subscription - £4.99, Annual subscription - £49.99.
Company: Independent Digital (UK) Ltd.
7. Telegraph Fantasy Football Online
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http://www.tffo.co.uk/
The idea is simple but addictive. Set up a fantasy squad of 18 current
Premiership players with your £80m allowance - 2 goalkeepers, 3
full-backs, 3 centre-backs, 6 midfielders and 4 strikers. Your squad's
success then depends on how these players perform in their real-life
Premier League matches.
Price: It costs just £7.50 to manage a team for the whole season (or,
alternatively, £10.00 for one Premiership team and one Champions
League team, or £15.00 for two Premiership teams, one Champions League
team and one Fantasy Cup team). You can also buy three Premiership
teams for the price of two with our £15.00 'Premiership Treble' pack.
Company: Hollinger Telegraph New Media Limited
8. The Sun - Dream Team World Cup Cricket
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http://www.dreamteamfc.com/
All you have to do is pick a team of 11 players who you think will
perform best during the six-week tournament.
Price: £5
Company: News Group Newspapers Limited
9. Warp Core
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http://www.warp-core.net/prices.php?nav=classa
Online games server for Half-Life, Quake, Soldier of Fortune
Price: Starts at £35.00 per month, minimum of 2 months
Company: Warp-Core is a division of Tune Computers Ltd.
10. Which?
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http://www.which.net/
Consumers' Association offers selections from its various magazines;
some content only accessible to registered subscribers.
Price: £7.75 a month (£4.75 a month if I subscribe to a Which?
magazine or Which? legal service).
Subs: 35,000 in Feb 1999
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmtrdind/187/187ap26.htm
Company: Which? is part of the Consumers' Association which runs
WebTrader, the online code of practice.
11. The Storm Report Online
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http://www.stormreport.co.uk/e/17/text/index.htm
The main purpose of The Storm Report is to provide its readers with a
steady flow of inspirational business ideas and hot profit
opportunities. News, noticeboard, 'Ask the Experts' service, archives.
Price: Annual subscription - £68.50 for 10 issues
Company: Meteor Press Ltd.
12. The Insurance Insider
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http://www.theinsider.co.uk/
The Insurance Insider is a subscription-only newsletter providing
news, analysis and financial information on the London and
international insurance and reinsurance Market.
Price: £395 / $490 for 12 issues (annual subscription)
Company: Published by Informed Publishing Ltd.
13. The Schmidt Report
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http://www.schmidtreport.co.uk/Information/home/homefram.htm
To provide both private individuals and small-to medium-sized business
with hands-on, action-orientated tax advice covering every aspect of
their affairs.
Price: $49 per year
Subs: 62,400 subscribers total for Government Auction News, Bargain
Hunters News, and The Schmidt Report
http://www.namebank.com/wentworthnewslettersubscribers.htm
Company: Wentworth Publishing Ltd
14. eFinancialNews
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http://www.efinancialnews.com/
In addition to the daily news service, eFinancialNews contains all of
the content of Financial News, the securities industry weekly
newspaper.
Price: £129.00 for one year
Company: eFinancialNews Ltd
15. UK Activity Report
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http://www.ukactivityreport.co.uk/order.htm
Comprehensive coverage of UK business activity, including
acquisitions, new projects, expansion plans, strategy etc. Weekly
email report and access to back-issues.
Price: £180 per year (50 issues)
16. CityWire
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http://www.citywire.co.uk/
UK news site including company news, citywire insider, technology news
and funds news. Funds insider has exclusive fund manager rankings
revealing the top performing individual unit trust managers.
Price: £99 a year
Company: Citywire.co.uk Ltd.
17. London Stock Exchange - Historical Pricing Service
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http://www.londonstockexchange.com/hps/
The Historic Price Service provides official end of day price
quotations (buy/sell spreads) for securities traded on the London
Stock Exchange... you can instantly obtain end of day price quotations
from 1st April 2001 to the present day through the Online Service.
Price: 12 months, £500 for 110 prices through to £3,000 for 1,000
prices
Company: London Stock Exchange
18. Government Auction News
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http://www.ganews.co.uk/
Largest online database of 'traditional' and online auctions available
in the UK. Subscriber noticeboard.
Price: £39.50 per year.
Subs: 62,400 subscribers total for Government Auction News, Bargain
Hunters News, and The Schmidt Report
http://www.namebank.com/wentworthnewslettersubscribers.htm
Company: Wentworth Publishing Ltd
19. MusicMagnet
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http://www.musicmagnet.co.uk/
Musicmagnet provides a database of musicians who teach your chosen
instrument in your specific area.
Price: £5.95 per month, or £59.95 annually.
Company: Aurora Interactive Ltd.
20. Construction Leads
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http://www.constructionleads.co.uk/newsite/index.cfm
Construction Leads is a subscription-based service providing
information on job leads in the building, construction and property
industries. The leads are an opportunity for consultants including
architects, engineers, surveyors and project managers to be "in" on a
project at the outset.
Price: £175.00 - £225.00 per year
21. @school
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http://www.atschool.co.uk/
This service is aimed at children aged 4 to 13. It also has school
subscriptions. The aim is to cover all curriculum subjects with its
own interactive content and also via links to many other selected
websites including games sites.
Price: £35.99 per year, £9.99 quarterly.
Company: ARKom Ltd
http://www.arkom.co.uk/
22. AngliaCampus
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http://www.angliacampus.com/
This service offers over 10,000 pages of learning resources and
activities, which include animations, video and sound clips as well as
interactive activities. There is a section for parents with guides and
advice on education and related topics. The content of the service is
also put onto CD ROM so you can use the resources without going
online.
Price: Home User £49.99 per year or £4.99 per month..
Subs: Used by over 3,500 schools
http://www.angliacampus.com/public/about/001110.htm
Company: Owned by Granada Learning
http://www.granada-learning.com/
23. Living Library
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http://livlib.eduweb.co.uk/
This service offers access to thousands of reference articles,
pictures and multimedia clips and over 5000 links to selected
websites. There are also reference texts such as Encyclopaedias,
dictionaries and revision guides.
Price: Home User £49.99 per year.
Subs: Some 6000 schools are now using Living Library and 35 LEAs
either supply it or recommend it to their schools as a content
provider.
http://www.rm.com/company/Generic.asp?cref=GP1603&Page=FandFs
Company: RM plc
http://www.rm.com/
24. Primary Zone
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http://www.primary-zone.com/
Resources for 4 to 11 year olds. There are about 100 interactive
activities in English, maths and science with accompanying parent’s
notes. The activities support the National Literacy and Numeracy
strategies.
Price: Home User £9.99 per year
Company: Granada Learning Ltd
25. Spark Island
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http://www.sparkisland.com/
This is for children aged 3 to 11 plus parents and teachers. The
service offers wide-ranging advice for parents on education-related
topics and specific advice on what children should be learning during
each year in English, maths and science.
Price: Home User £49.00 per year.
Company: Spark Learning Limited.
26. Einstein Online
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http://www.einsteinonline.co.uk
The service provides study support for times tables, mental maths,
spelling, literacy, numeracy and science throughout the year,
reinforcing the work which is taught in school. The programme gives
daily tests in spellings, tables and mental maths and includes online
reporting of child performance with graphs and tables which parents
can use to identify specific areas of weakness.
Price: Home User £9.99 per month for a family of up to 4 children.
Company: Einsteinonline Limited
27. eFax UK
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http://efax.co.uk/
Complete communication solutions for businesses. Its efax inbound (fax
to email) and efax outbound (email to fax) meant that the fax machine
could become obsolete. Combining these services with ecall (voice to
email), a businessman's messages could all come straight to his email
address.
Price: between £23.49 and £211.46 per year
https://secure.efax.co.uk/efax/email/trial.php3
Company: efax Ltd
28. Mailbox Movies
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http://dvd.mailboxmovies.com/welcome/
Rent unlimited DVDs, postage included.
Price: £7.97 per month
Company: Mailbox Movies Ltd
29. Picture Search
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http://www.picturesearch.ltd.uk/
A web-based service to help publishers and designers find suitable
photographs for their books, magazines or other publications.
Price: UK£180/US$270 per year for picture libraries. Solo
photographers pay only UK£120/US$180 per year.
Subs: 1100
30. Secure Protector
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http://www.secureprotector.co.uk/
Independent security advice , access to information on current
security alerts, alert by email service, security articles , system
scan to warn of possible security holes, advice based on the scan
results, software fixes based on scan results
Price: SecureProtector Gold costs £10 per quarter
Company: Secureprotector Limited
31. Tennis Master
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http://www.tennismaster.co.uk/
Tips service for betting on tennis matches.
Price: £40 per month or £195 per year
Search strategy:
site:.uk "subscription model"
site:.uk "paid subscribers"
site:.uk "subscription based"
Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga |
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