Comments on: Print is dead. Long live print!

By: Digital Media round-up, w/c 1st December « Paul Lomax - Two Point Oh

Digital Media round-up, w/c 1st December « Paul Lomax - Two Point Oh — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:56:16 +0000

[...] not tomorrow, or next month, or even next year – but it’s coming”. Why? Well as Ryan Sholin demonstrates, the newspaper buyers of the future don’t buy them. A weekly publication, maybe. [...]

By: Ron Sylvester

Ron Sylvester — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:39:55 +0000

For my list, delete recipes. I’m a big cooking enthusiast and I get all of my recipes online now. When I think of it, I share them on delicious, which kind of fits, I think.

By: How many 25-year-olds you know buy a newspaper? « Subbed Out?

How many 25-year-olds you know buy a newspaper? « Subbed Out? — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:51:25 +0000

[...] as Ryan Sholin demonstrates, the newspaper buyers of the future don’t buy them. A weekly publication, maybe. A [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:43:52 +0000

Incidentally, college newspapers didn’t cross my mind here, but they fit into a time-sensitive category that goes something like this:

Things I read in print every day when I was on campus, but read online-only now.

The local newspaper where you grew up might fit into this category as well, depending on your age.

By: alesh

alesh — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:03:14 +0000

This is about where I am, too. But I’ve been giving some thought lately to the Kindle. I don’t see it eliminating paper books completely, but maybe more and more so over time. (I have yet to investigate whether my library has a way of loaning e-books… perhaps by download?)

As you know the alt-weekly scene here in Miami leaves something to be desired, but in any case I see that moving online over time, too. Same for magazines to a lesser extent (the best magazines combine design photography and text in ways that just doesn’t translate to the internet).

What’s particularly interesting is the prospect of having a portable, easy-on-the-eyes screen for browsing the text-based internet (eg in particular newspaper sites), because I understand the Kindle comes with some sort of limited internet-browsing ability built in.

BTW, I recently did a 13-week subscription of the paper Herald, and what a disaster that was… I hardly ever even opened it, and then they extended my subscription and repeatedly called me trying to get me to pay for it.

By: Mike Higdon

Mike Higdon — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:00:01 +0000

I would generally agree with that list. I’ve read newspapers in print when I’ve worked for them and because of the comics section when I was younger.