Libraries Use Internet to Lure Patrons

kctipton writes NewsScan Daily notes that “LIBRARIES USE INTERNET TO LURE PATRONS.”

Libraries are using the Internet to attract busy readers by e-mailing
patrons online book teasers — a chapter or so of a book at regular
intervals. More than 3,000 libraries nationwide have latched onto the
strategy as a way to serve both bookworms and the time-pressed….The service is provided by DearReader.com, owned by Suzanne
Beecher, who started out by e-mailing chapters to part-time employees of
her family’s software business. (AP 26 Mar 2004)

Excite.com has the original article noticed by NewsScan.