All the Print that’s fit to Digitize
Google is expanding a program to digitize newspaper archives and has begun scanning microfilm from some 100 newspapers. The plan is to make the content available first through Google News and then through the papers’ Web properties. Ads will appear alongside the articles. Score one for archive junkies.
The jury’s still out for publishers. It’s generally too expensive for them to take the plunge and digitize their own archives. Google’s offering to foot the bill. But once those archives are digitized there’s value to them and what type of deals are going to be struck as they begin to be monetized?
Don’t know about you, but I’m so going to review 1920’s Prohibition [slash] jazz-age reporting on the New York mafia.
No, seriously. I will. If you doubt me check what I discovered today.
