[Leica] kindle and newspapers

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

The San Francisco Chronicle is tanking. We just canceled our subscription as 
the cost doubled in 6 months; 3 different price increases. Now almost $2 
per...? They have the same size pie (cost basis) and fewer customers to eat 
the pie, therefore bigger pieces per customer. Works with pies; doesn't work 
with newspapers.

Daily papers are ruling the paper world?now in the?Bay Area. Free, full of 
advertisements. Not so great reportage, but wrap fish well....
Best,
Bob
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com 




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From: Phil Swango <pswango at att.net>
To: LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:29:05 AM
Subject: [Leica] kindle and newspapers

Leo Wesson wrote:interesting radio article on the kindle and newspapers and
the struggle for
newspapers? to survive in the internet world.? the newspapers here are
tanking, most of my friends that work for newspapers no longer have jobs.

I was wondering how the rest of the world deals with this?? are your
newspapers going out of business?
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Here in NM the Albuquerque Journal is still published and sold on the street
as well as by subscription. I get it at home, and it doesn't seem to have
changed much in the 15 years I've lived here, except that I've noticed a
trend for local news to get more coverage on the front page.? Maybe that's a
tactic that can work for others -- concentrate on local news that wouldn't
appear on national online sources.? Most days I also read the NYT,
Washington Post and USA Today, all online.? Some days I also check the WSJ
and CSM and a few others.? I download the NYT and USA Today to the iPod
Touch.? USA Today has a particularly readable app for the iPhone/Touch.

Readability can be an issue on some devices but I have no problem with it at
all on the Touch.? Maybe one reason is that I'm hyperopic and presbyopic so
my prescription involves a good bit of magnification.

I've just started getting the New Yorker online in addition to my paper
version.? Not sure yet how that's going to work out but it's free to
subscribers so I'm trying it out.

-- 
Phil Swango
307 Aliso Dr SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
505-262-4085

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