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E-library site

An online library site is dedicated to providing access to a very large amount of content, usually of a particular type. The prime example is a news site, where new content is created throughout the day, every day of the week and is published online and then archived as it becomes out of date. Other examples include journals, analyst reports, and software libraries.

Users would usually have to register for these sites, and may then be given the opportunity to be sent e-mails on a regular basis summarizing the latest content. On a news site the latest news may be free, but users may have to pay for access to archived content. On other types of "library" sites, you may have to pay for access to any of the content. A number of components are used together to deliver an e-library site:

An e-library site may have a very large audience and a very large amount of content.


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