[Coco] Magazine sharing website

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 20:39:14 EDT 2008


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!




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