PDF papers - a threat to online news?
J.D. Lasica has a piece,
Are Digital Newspaper Editions More Than Smoke and Mirrors?, on this issue. According to Lasica, "
About 90 newspapers worldwide now publish digital editions -- exact replicas of printed newspapers or magazines that users can read on their computer screens." If you have never seen a PDF paper, believe me that the quality is terrific (better than print) and some digital newspaper platforms, such as
NewsStand (
http://www.newsstand.com/), which produces a PDF version of the
Australian, offer functionality such as keyword search, that makes the paper easy to scan or search, especially as backfile builds up and you can search across several days' issues. But does it mean the end of free online news? It well might. Read more at
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1054780462.php.
Posted by belinda at June 6, 2003 10:03 AM