Reminds Me of AOL

Looking to take newspaper delivery into the 21st century, Ohio’s Akron Beacon Journal is offering a new way to get your morning paper: on a compact disc for your computer. Each daily disc shows the paper’s actual pages, allowing the reader to zoom in on any portion, including photos and ads. “This version of the paper is very appealing to a lot of people who are accustomed to reading the paper in its page by page format,” says Journal spokesman Mike Needs. It’s even cheaper for them to produce: a CD costs 19 cents to create, while the actual paper costs 35 cents. (AP) ...And when you come home from vacation, you find a pile of CDs on the front porch.