Nickname: Richard

Review: And this is why the small weekly I work for doesn't put nearly all of its content online. It's nice for people to be able to read online, certainly, but we still have to pay people to write articles, print the paper, do proofingreading, and fact checking, lawyers in case people take offense to the articles or viewpoints. And we charge people to buy older editions of the paper as well. We don't give it away for free. Other papers in the area who do give away their content online have seen as high as a 45% drop in circulation. Ours has remained constant. What incentive is there to give away our content, or allow companies like congoo (?) to give it away for us?

Date reviewed: Sep 9, 2006 4:40 PM

Nickname: MT

Review: Google's Archive Search saves a lot of time for people who want to work from home and not wait in line at the library.

Date reviewed: Sep 8, 2006 7:10 PM

Nickname: Rich

Review: Most public libraries subscribe to electronic databases and offer FREE full-text news articles to the public. Why pay for something that most people can get for FREE at their local public library?

Date reviewed: Sep 7, 2006 2:51 AM

Nickname: Heyers

Review: While it's great to find the articles, I don't want to pay for them. For free access to the archived news, try Congoo.com, which launched earlier this year and allows people to search and actually read several archived news articles per month free from about 300 newspapers.

Date reviewed: Sep 6, 2006 12:42 PM