Exclusive scoop! (I think.): Marc Fest, founder of QuickBrowse, a popular tool that lets you browse multiple web sites at once (vastly speeding up, for example, your morning news perusal), wrote in to tell us that QuickBrowse, up until now a free service, is changing to a subscription model next Tuesday. "It'll be $12.95 for a three month period. There's a free, fully functional 7 day trial for which no creditcard information needs to be provided (I hate it when free trials require giving out creditcard information, so I was not going to do this on my site). Also, creditcards will NOT be automatically re-charged at the end of a subscription period so no-one will stay subscribed accidentally," says Marc. The switch will come along with an upgrade to the service that adds serveral new features, which I'm sure will soften the blow for users. Will it work? "I think that those that benefit from Quickbrowsing (analysts, editors, researchers) will subscribe because no others service accelerates viewing lots of information the way we do. The information advantage Quickbrowse provides is so unique that in the last four months alone the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and Time Magazine have recommended Quickbrowse to their users," says the founder.

09/07/01 update (by Olivier): some other details can be found on this About article: Quickbrowse Upgrades and Switches to Paid Service.