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Re: Archiving old magazines on website



>Hello all,
>I recently started looking into archiving old computer magazines on a
>website.  One of my favorite magazines was Compute!, as well as some
>of their books.  But there are other magazines out there as well.
>Personally I am a long-time user of the Apple II series, but I wanted
>to inquire to users in these groups that have other computers as well,
>to see if there was a broad interest in this.  I would think there
>would be a use for having some of these old publications in digital
>format, online.
>
>I own a web hosting and design company, so I have the means to do
>this.
>
>I understand there are still some existing copyrights to some of these
>out-of-print publications that need to be adhered to.  But I have
>already started looking in to this on some.
>
>Anyway, I'd like to hear what others have to say about this, and if
>there is a demand for it.  I'm willing to pursue this further if there
>is a demand.
>
>Thanks a lot for any additional comments/feedback....!

I think it would be nice to do that. I for one loved Compute have 
all the Atari ST issues and disks. Too bad they did not carry the 
Atari line much longer than they did.

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