It is actually offering REAL content, actual information, not links or come ons. There is a charge for almost all the documents, and naturally the books and magazines are for sale. This is a content superstore, not a library. Contributing editors include Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, literary curmudgeon Harold Bloom, as well as Anita Hill and Wendy Wasserstein, to name just a few. Mr. Brill is well connected and so is his site.
Web surfers are pretty intolerant and fickle.
Upset them once and they move on. The odds would be more favorable without the payment impediments , but then how is a mogul to live without income or keep a site up to date for that matter. Perhaps a year from now the site will be finished and will have begun to build a presence. I for one wish it well. There are many too many snazzy graphics and non-functioning gizmos out there and not enough sober words, those old and faithful friends who have outlived many a format.