What is the difference between a content provider and an Internet service provider?

*Internet Service Provider: connects users to the Internet and provides email accounts. AT&T, Comcast and AOL are leaders in this. ISPs usually provide access but little in the way of content. They lease high-speed connections to the Internet backbone from telecommunication carriers in order to do their job.

*Content Service Provider: their job is to make Web pages more interesting by providing content to the ISPs such as news, entertainment and graphic design. Raw information that others might shape into information services is part of CSP; therefore in a way anyone who has ever posted his/her own home page on the WWW or made a blog entry is a CSP.