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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on November 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1585 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Time Mirror's videotex experiment Gateway's failure in the 1980s can provide valuable lessons for media companies that are currently entering and promoting the information services industry. News summaries, constant updates, extensive sports statistics, graphics for weather reports and interactive forums such as Video Vote were very popular with subscribers. Among the main problems were the cost, the unreliability of the technology and the lack of interactivity. These problems need to be sorted out for information services to become popular.Citation DetailsTitle: The videotex debacle.Author: Larry PryorPublication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)Date: November 1, 1994Publisher: University of MarylandVolume: v16 Issue: n9 Page: p40(3)Distributed by Thomson Gale