Seattle Company Is Creating Digital Small-Town Newspaper Archives

SmallTownPapers, founded by Seattle businessman Paul Jeffko, currently digitizes the print versions of three dozen small papers. The service, free to publishers, produces searchable digital versions of the papers — including ads. The archives, created at no cost to the publisher, are being housed at the company’s web site; many of the publishers don’t have sites.
From a distance, this looks like an ad play getting ready to happen — or an idea for sale.

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