No bandwidth concerns. Easy access for readers around the world for whom the Internet is E-mail. Once readers install PCN software, PCN loads itself into their computers' random-access memory and comes on automatically as a screensaver. PCN has established relationships with The Boston Globe, Knight-Ridder Inc. of Miami, the Los Angeles Times, The Tampa Tribune and the Star Tribune in Minneapolis and wants to march into a market near you. Partners receive regional exclusivity to sell ad slots, with revenue split 50-50.
Publishers keep a larger percentage of local ad dollars.
They also receive promotional benefits as passive delivery promotes the whole story in Web or print editions. FreeLoader delivers complete Web pages, not just text, so a newspaper's entire Web site could be delivered in HTML, just as Creagh's reader requested. The FreeLoader system even accommodates passwords or other transactional trivia. These two services need downloading. Mercury Mail, not to be confused with San Jose Mercury News' Mercury Center, offers direct delivery of personal general E-mail services or branded services through partner publishers.