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Thanks for the response. I just wanted to thank you for the mention on your site and take just a minute of your time to make you aware of some of the new resources we have recently released to the public for free. I also just wanted to give you a quick glimpse as to our direction.

As you are probably aware, in the past month we have launched a series of specialized collections pulled from our archive of digital newspaper images. We have been focusing our efforts around topics that we feel will lend themselves to a broad range of public interest, from historical figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln to current topics such as college basketball and professional baseball. Thus far we have completed 7 free special interest archives averaging anywhere between 15 thousand and 50 thousand digitized newspaper pages, and we are adding to the collection at the rate of 2 new sites per week. You can see examples at http://www.TitanicArchive.com or http://www.MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com. I am planning on stepping up our production of these sites next month to somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 to 20 a month.

Today we launched http://www.september11archive.com (I am especially proud of the work my staff put into this particular archive) and we will follow it up with http://www.fbiarchive.com on Thursday. I am just very excited by the direction we are heading with these sites.

David, I would be willing to add additional archives tailored specifically to the interests of your readers, if you have any ideas or suggestions, please contact me. There would be no investment on your part aside from helping us promote the site. If it was ever reported about in a newspaper, we can build an archive on the topic. These sites will always remain free.

The links below will take you to our other special collections; I have also included the link to our flagship subscription service (a paid site) NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

http://www.martinlutherkingjrarchive.com
http://www.abrahamlincolnarchive.com
http://www.titanicarchive.com
http://www.asbestosarchive.com
http://www.wintergamesarchive.com
http://www.collegebasketballarchive.com
http://www.probaseballarchive.com
http://www.september11archive.com
http://www.fbiarchive.com
http://www.newspaperarchive.com

Respectfully,

Jeffrey C. Kiley
General Manager

Please email me at drNOSPAMPLEASEteleread.com and and send me a copy of the commejnts that didn’t get through. Since the above post mentions you, I’m eager to see you get space.

Meanwhile best of luck with NewspaperARCHIVE. Glad to see you got some exposure in the W. Post. BTW, I myself can appreciate what a struggle it must be to negotiate with rights owners–something that of course will affect how complete you are. Keep up the good work!

Thanks!

David Rothman (wearing his sysadmin hat)

I believe my previous e-mail was flagged as spam. I am sorry.

Respectfully,
Jeff