Starting several days ago, Salon. corn is (1) some users will pay $30 per year for ad-free pages. These pages will spare users the ads, and give more (2) including extra columns, and audio downloads of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories. (3) , users could continue to use the free site— (4) bigger, louder ads put on the web to combat (战斗，抗击) the perceived ineffectiveness of (5) banner ads on the tops of Web pages.
Traditionally, with the exception (6) The Wall Street Journal, which also (7) Web ads, paid Internet sites have been unsuccessful. (8) , an industry yst believes the choice between a (9) site and an ad-free subscription site may become a (10) in coming months, as large interactive ads replace or (11) traditional banner ads and demand more attention (12) Web users. "My prediction is that as these (13) ads are implemented and (14) on these sites, because they’re (15) undesirably noticeable, people will be more (16) to paying for content that is ad-free," says Denise Garcia, research director for media at Gartner, Inc.
Salon, an economically sick Web magazine, has had to lay (17) about a third of its staff in recent months. It hopes the (18) will bring (19) much- needed revenue, but does not see it as a sure method to (20) make the site profitable, a spokesman says.