Salon.com Launches Premium Service

Salon.com launched a subscription service that offers premium content, including what it calls “erotic art and photography,” for a $30 annual fee. The premium service is designed to bring in additional revenue for Salon, which has depended mostly on advertising to support its free Internet magazine. Salon’s business has suffered along with many Internet content sites, which have lost some of their original dot-com advertisers. A Salon spokesman declined to comment on the new erotic content it will make available to its paying customers. Salon also declined to disclose how many subscribers it has signed up for the premium service.