Bailout from AOL Gannett's USA Weekend is pulling its online area off of America Online later this month and will concentrate on its World Wide Web site. USA Weekend had a presence on AOL for more than a year. There's some debate whether USA Weekend and other publishers on AOL, including magazine publisher The Atlantic, were pushed out because they weren't making enough money for AOL, or if they jumped ship themselves. In any event, this would seem to portend more publisher defections from the AOL proprietary service as publishers focus on their Web publishing ventures. Now that AOL has gone to a flat-rate monthly subscription fee and ended hourly surcharges to users, content providers are expected to see less usage fee revenue from their AOL areas.
More defections are inevitable.
Community, which owns 117 small newspapers in eastern Massachusetts, has licensed CareerSite's job-matching software to create the site.