Most companies have a lot of information about how their products are best used. The Internet offers a great way to make this information available to your customers. Apple Computer, for example, has set up an indexed collection of thousands of files on the Internet, accessible by anyone, describing how to use their computers most effectively. Digital Equipment Corporation found a unique way to demonstrate their new Alpha computers to a broad audience. Digital provides access to two Alpha computers through the Internet.
Any Internet user can get an account and try out the new computers across the network.
A rapidly growing Internet facility is the Electronic Newsstand. Magazine publishers make articles from recent issues available over the Internet through the Electronic Newsstand. Readers can sample and order a large and growing collection of publications from anywhere in the world. Of course, there are also catalog sales over the Internet. Perhaps the most popular are for books but the range of other products is growing.