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Originally Posted by fugazied
E-readers, no. But tablets, phones and other mobile computers yes.
For them to survie they will have to offer paid subscriptions which receive a full colour version of the newspaper, with embedded media throughout. So you click on a news article and from that article you can interactively see video, analysis, other user comments, related topics. In a more advanced way than with current websites. eg. this http://www.minonline.com/news/12862.html
That kind of higher level of interactivity isn't supported by ereaders. More advanced mobile computers with color screens and faster processors will do it. Most people don't buy newspapers because they don't want paper and plain text. The e-readers take away the paper part but the format of the newspaper is basically the same. |
One of the reasons I don't get the newspaper is that I don't want to deal with having to get rid of the paper afterward. I would be willing to pay for an electronic version of my local paper as long as:
- It's delivered in a format suitable for my reader. For example, rather than trying to duplicate the experience of the printed paper, give me several format options for my e-newspaper (plain text with no illustrations, fully formatted PDF with illustrations, and so on). With electronic versions, it is possible to automatically generate several versions from the same source document.
- Subdivide the paper into topical sections so I can choose the parts of the paper that I want, and disregard the parts that I don't want. Another reason that I don't get the local paper is that I have little interest in most of the paper, I'd rather just get the parts that I want.