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Re:Ask HN: 75,000 books & an active member base - is Questia... by tptacek on Monday March 07, 2011 @09:59PM (#2299634)
(a) What value is there on that page?

(b) Knowing the person asking you the question had just selected and reviewed a sample of 12 of your content pages at random, what would you say the average Questia page looks more like: the Pabst sample you provided, or the sample Patrick provided above?

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Re:Ask HN: 75,000 books & an active member base - is Questia... by patio11 on Monday March 07, 2011 @10:28PM (#2299704)
You can't review twelve of their content pages at random. After the second page of one of those public domain books, you'll be hit with an unskippable signup prompt. (One day free trial with CC.)

That's actually within the letter of the Google guidelines for First Click Free, but you could be forgiven for not enjoying the experience as a searcher.

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Re:Ask HN: 75,000 books & an active member base - is Questia... by tptacek on Monday March 07, 2011 @11:03PM (#2299767)
I assumed the content was the paragraph above the listings for paid ebooks. My mistake.
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