“Jan paid these magazines for their subscriber lists and began to send these pockets of men packets of disks.”
Jan Brandt · Hyperfixed · How America Got Online
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What was described
paid magazines for their subscriber lists and mailed AOL disks directly to those readers
Said nearby on the same subject
“Jan started striking deals with magazines where instead of getting their subscriber list, they would just package AOL disks with the magazine itself, gluing it to the front page like a perfume sample.”