World wide web document distribution system with compensation for document providers and for document receiving users for distribution costs by users permitting providers to track the users' document access activities on the web

In a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving Web display stations for displaying received hypertext documents of at least one display page containing text and images accessible from document sources on the Web, a method for compensating Web document providers comprising:

• enabling a user at a receiving display station to bookmark a received Web document;
• prompting the user of a bookmarked Web document to select to compensate a provider of said bookmarked document by permitting said provider to track said user's document access activities on the Web;
• and
• tracking said user's activities on the Web responsive to said user selection to permit said tracking.

A computer program having code recorded on a computer readable medium for compensating Web document providers in a Web communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive receiving Web display stations for displaying received hypertext documents of at least one display page containing text and images accessible from document sources on the Web, said program comprising:

• means enabling a user at a receiving display station to bookmark a received Web document;
• prompting means associated with the bookmarking of a Web document by a user for prompting said user to select to compensate a provider of said bookmarked document by permitting said provider to track said user's document access activities on the Web;
• and
• means responsive to said prompting means for tracking said user's activities on the Web.