http://www.metafilter.com/tags/contentville Posts tagged with 'contentville' at MetaFilter. Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:29:59 -0800 Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:29:59 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/10959/ <a href="http://www.contentville.com/">Contentville</a> goes <A HREF="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010930/re/online_contentville_dc_1.html">Splitsville</A>. Steven Brill's online newsstand -- originally funded with $130 million from CBS, NBC and Primedia in <A HREF="http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,16557,00.html?nl=mg">February 2000</A> -- closed their doors today. In a memo to his staff, Brill wrote, "My idea for Contentville just didn't work." I'm guessing that heavy competition from other online retailers and an abundance of freely available online content did them in. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.10959 Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:29:59 -0800 brill contentville dotcom schadenfreude waxpancake http://www.metafilter.com/2856/ <a href="http://contentville.com">Contentville</a> is selling copies of over 1.5 million college dissertations and theses published since 1871. Contentville claims that authors will be paid royalties if their works are sold, but somehow I don't think they contacted most of those authors for permission to put said works up for sale in the first place. tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.2856 Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:05:21 -0800 authors brokenlink contentville copyright dissertations royalties theses thesis phichens