Comments on: Future of Newspapers: eReaders? http://www.mikewhite.co.uk/2009/08/09/future-of-newspapers-ereaders/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: earn $2 per install http://www.mikewhite.co.uk/2009/08/09/future-of-newspapers-ereaders/#comment-28 earn $2 per install Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:05:27 +0000 #comment-28 Good work, keep us posting, you are very good writer. Good work, keep us posting, you are very good writer.

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]]> By: Ceebee http://www.mikewhite.co.uk/2009/08/09/future-of-newspapers-ereaders/#comment-26 Ceebee Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:54:28 +0000 #comment-26 Having used various e readers on a Sony Clie (6 years ago that was cutting edge !) I find products such as mobipocket (Kindle) very intuitive and an excellent distribution medium. The draw back is the screen size on a pda or mobile 'phone. The dedicted e-readers (and there are a good number) solve the screen problem and give a far more pleasant reading experience. Once content can be downloaded from subscription sites the newspaper will finally die, the only cost the provider has is the intellectual process of journalism and those who remember the way Murdoch and co. dealt with the move from Fleet Street will have no doubt as to his determination to achieve the new distribution method . All objections that mobiles are the long term future are misguided - would you really want to stare at an iPhone screen for an hour to read content ?- and the only way to get anything approaching quality journalism is to pay so the kindle route is IMHO the first step on a road which will surprise us all as much as mobile technology has. Having used various e readers on a Sony Clie (6 years ago that was cutting edge !) I find products such as mobipocket (Kindle) very intuitive and an excellent distribution medium. The draw back is the screen size on a pda or mobile ‘phone. The dedicted e-readers (and there are a good number) solve the screen problem and give a far more pleasant reading experience.
Once content can be downloaded from subscription sites the newspaper will finally die, the only cost the provider has is the intellectual process of journalism and those who remember the way Murdoch and co. dealt with the move from Fleet Street will have no doubt as to his determination to achieve the new distribution method .
All objections that mobiles are the long term future are misguided – would you really want to stare at an iPhone screen for an hour to read content ?- and the only way to get anything approaching quality journalism is to pay so the kindle route is IMHO the first step on a road which will surprise us all as much as mobile technology has.

]]> By: chessie http://www.mikewhite.co.uk/2009/08/09/future-of-newspapers-ereaders/#comment-25 chessie Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:10:49 +0000 #comment-25 Three fairly simple and straightfoward questions. 1.Will there be an attempt to make it illegal to talk about newspaper articles that are printed in media behind Rupert Murdoch's pay wall? I don't feel the need to elaborate further on this but it strikes me as the only way to guarantee for any length of time that his content stays anything like exclusive on the internet. 2.Paywalls have been attempted repeatedly and failed every time. The Kindle is plagued with problems and limited functionality. Yes, it's an amusing toy but does it provide connectivity in the same way a fully functional computer does? No. Does Rupert Murdoch propose to come up with his own E-reader which will suddenly not have all the problems a Kindle does and will also offer all of the functionality of a computer? Somehow I doubt it. 3.Murdoch's media mega-empire died the second people were able to create their own content. Reversing it requires flat out stripping the internet of the ability to transfer content between two people over the web. Sure, put it behind a pay-wall. Please. I don't need to see another article about which celebrity stopped smoking this week and another heartwarming pair of re-united twins separated at birth. If Murdoch genuinely wants to bring people to his sites, he's got to provide something people want to see and do it conveniently. This is the internet. Scarcity will be incredibly hard to create here and scarcity of stories about chicken slingshots, corrupt politicians, and other junk news will be impossible. Three fairly simple and straightfoward questions.

1.Will there be an attempt to make it illegal to talk about newspaper articles that are printed in media behind Rupert Murdoch’s pay wall? I don’t feel the need to elaborate further on this but it strikes me as the only way to guarantee for any length of time that his content stays anything like exclusive on the internet.

2.Paywalls have been attempted repeatedly and failed every time. The Kindle is plagued with problems and limited functionality. Yes, it’s an amusing toy but does it provide connectivity in the same way a fully functional computer does? No. Does Rupert Murdoch propose to come up with his own E-reader which will suddenly not have all the problems a Kindle does and will also offer all of the functionality of a computer? Somehow I doubt it.

3.Murdoch’s media mega-empire died the second people were able to create their own content. Reversing it requires flat out stripping the internet of the ability to transfer content between two people over the web. Sure, put it behind a pay-wall. Please. I don’t need to see another article about which celebrity stopped smoking this week and another heartwarming pair of re-united twins separated at birth.

If Murdoch genuinely wants to bring people to his sites, he’s got to provide something people want to see and do it conveniently. This is the internet. Scarcity will be incredibly hard to create here and scarcity of stories about chicken slingshots, corrupt politicians, and other junk news will be impossible.

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