[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

Wed Sep 24 15:45:38 UTC 2008

2008/9/24 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
> With thousands of papers on backlog and limited manpower resources,
> it's probably far too large a task for them to start now. I'm
> surprised that they haven't looked into turning this into a profit
> source in some way, such as selling people newspapers from the day
> they were born

Thing is, this is impractical. You need to keep everything in storage,
and you need to keep it all accessible, it's just that every now and
again you send out a tiny bit of the collection. It's essentially all
the downsides of keeping the collection but with a small amount of
your running costs covered.

The companies that do this tend to operate on very small margins, with
large warehouses, and concentrating on small timeframes. Everything
pre-1900 would be junked, for a start...

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk