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Old 07-21-2008, 12:14 PM   #17
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Mr. Granger knows some will see the cover as a gimmick —
No... you think?

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— but he says he thinks the technology behind it, which has been used for supermarket displays but never embedded in a magazine, speaks to the possibilities of print.
The only thing that seems to say is that print is due to be replaced.

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an electronic cover, using admittedly rudimentary technology, that will flash “the 21st Century Begins Now,” when it appears on newsstands in September.
They could have done that with an LCD screen and a watch battery... and maybe have gotten it to the newsstand in, oh, I dunno... January 2001.
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