[Coco] Magazine sharing website

[theother_bob]

I agree 100%. I loathe corporate greed, but the consumers only recourse is either a boycott or something like this, which is just as wrong but in the opposite direction. Eventually people's voices may be heard by lawmakers, but when corporations pretty much own congress then we get little more than lip service. What would this world be like if everyone (or at least our "leaders", who should set the example!) were honest and ethical?

Bob



----- Original Message ----
From: Frank Swygert <farna at att.net>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:42:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Magazine sharing website

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! 

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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:47:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: theother_bob <theother_bob at yahoo.com>

Well sometimes you find what you need just when you need it...

http://www.mygazines.com/


"What is Mygazines? 
Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive
and customize  unlimited magazine articles uploaded by
you, the Mygazines community."


This is an offshore (or similar) website, and as you can see, copyrights are apparently not a big deal there. Far as I'm concerned, I hope every CoCo magazine ever published gets posted online for free. 

-- 
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Motors Cars" 
Magazine (AMC)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AMC.html
(free download available!)


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