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<p>I'll have to admit, having a question posed here "answered" with the solicitation that what I need to do is call the back issue dept and buy the entire may 1966 issue, just to get an answer to the question, is not very heartwarming, so in that narrow vein, I probaly would prefer online access over having to play the "back issues" game.</p><p> </p><p>But then you run into the cost Kalmbach would have to incurr to digitize their archives, versus the revenue stream it would hope to generate. And ask "would it pay for itself?"</p><p> </p><p>My uninformed suspicion is, that it would not. It would cost them several thousand dollars to digitize it all, probably 5 figures a couple times over.</p><p> </p><p>Selling access to single copies would put their payback WAYYYYY down the road.</p><p> </p><p>Many magazines are digitizing their new issues, and giving subscribers free access to those archives, which makes you think twice before daring to let those subscriptions lapse. Trains probably should give serious consideration to that.</p><p> </p><p>Now, as far as the historical archives go, here's what would suit me; Assuming they would digitize the hole collection, and then sell hourly subscriptions to access the whole wad?</p><p> </p><p>I'd gladly pay $1.00/hr just to browse, and more for any articles printed.</p><p> </p><p>If managed right, such a system could be a real cash cow for Kalmbach, have some old head come on here and recount the "ATSF-SP water wars 0f 1910" as recounted in the XX-XX-195X issue of trains, how many people from here would be accessing that issue through the archives just to see for themselves? MANY is my guess<br /> </p>
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