The publisher's media kit reports another 11,000 subscribers to the on-line digital edition.

Toward that end, newspapers are starting on-line editions, data base marketing businesses and telephone information services.

The on-line edition, which counted more than 475,000 visitors last month, includes late-breaking news and Internet-only deals.

Sometimes stories didn't make it into the on-line editions.

Its on-line edition is updated daily.

Readers can read the on-line edition of Metropolis all over the world by simply registering as users at its official site, and it is totally free.

This announcement briefly boosted print sales again and the plans to switch to an on-line only edition were canceled.

An on-line second edition was formerly available.

The magazine publishes twice a year in print and also produces an on-line digital edition which is published three months after the printed issue.

As the specifications for the on-line edition are being finalized, the huge task of revising the century-old printed dictionary continues.