Yahoo charges for AP archive access
like the avg person is going to pay a buck and a half to read an old article or put it in a school report, especially when dozens may need to be sited.
when clips cost more than the newspapers they come in (the times charges $2.99 per story) you know something very funny is happening with the business plan. my guess is the lawyers are behind it, "establishing value" for the benefit of future piracy suits.
we need more access, not less, and someone will come along to provide it IF people get away from the habit of using portals, like the ones that seem to always make these kinds of anti-competitive deals.
- js.
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