[Coco] Magazine sharing website

[Neil Morrison]

It's always well to remember that many current magazines may be read or 
borrowed from public libraries - funded by he tax dollars of authors and 
publishers.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Swygert" <farna at att.net>


> While I have no problem with obsolete or even several year old magazines 

> being shared/archived like this, it is definitely WRONG to upload current 

> issues! If that happened a lot no one would have magazines -- the 

> publishers would go out of business. At least a year old I don't have a 

> lot of problem with -- most publishers don't sell many back issues, and 

> people want to read current articles, so there's very little (if any) harm 

> done to the publisher -- might even entice people to subscribe or look for 

> current issues on news stands!

> Just my opinion... if all the CoCo mags (even the ones I published) ended 

> up there it would indeed be a good thing. Would still be better ot have a 

> DVD with all of them on it on hand. When (I wouldn't say if...) that site 

> gets shut down you'll still have your DVD! I've seen several sites with 

> lots of irreplaceable info go down over the years, and it's then gone!