The majority of literary societies, however, are short of funds and cannot afford the services of commercial Internet presence providers. Project Runeberg and Lysator are in a unique position to be able to offer these services for free to a limited category of organizations. Modern Internet search engines like Infoseek and Digital's Alta Vista can locate virtually any web page by looking at keywords. But finding the things you are looking for is still the hardest part of using the Internet. Project Runeberg is an activity within Lysator, an academic computer society at Link ping University in Link ping, Sweden.
Commercial companies make a living from offering Internet services.
The questions are motivated, and they deserve honest answers. The editors of Project Runeberg have considered these issues very carefully. Literary societies are typically non-profit organizations. Lysator too is a non-profit organization, and we know that they seldom have any money for marketing. If Project Runeberg did not provide free web space for these societies, they would most probably not be on the net at all.