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by johndhi 1068 days ago
I like that idea. A homepage that lists the top 20 stories of the day that are about a document that probably isn't actually linked to. Go to our site (www.readtheactualdocument.com) to see it -- and get served ads.

Additive would be some highlighting and annotating of the document (as nytimes sometimes does) to point people to salient points.

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Scribd already does that, but with subscription/one-time payments instead of ads.

I guess it's only works with leaked or hard to find documents.

But why would a media website upload docs to your site, when they can serve it from their own?

if I get a commemorative lucite block with "Leader in Innovation" someday, I'll know it came from your startup as they went public, good luck!
100% of readers will not read the source document.