post that material online at no extra cost. The cooperative later backed down from this plan and, in a bid to reach more readers, launched asap , a service aimed toward 18- to 34-year-olds. The targeted service was discontinued in October 2007. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AP_ASAP?SITE=AP&SECTION;=HOME&TEMPLATE;=DEFAULT&CTIME;=2007-07-27-18-24-41]. AP's American employees, except for a small group