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It will take a slightly more in-depth review than that to convince me.

I believe the content is exactly the same. The WSJ, unlike other papers, charges a subscription fee for it's online content. They have over 900,000 online subscribers the last time I heard.

I couldn't decide if I should start a new thread or not. So sheepishly, I'm going to post my confession in this thread. The majority of my posts since I've joined B&R have been about newspapers. And most of those posts have been moaning and groaning about their slow demise. Tommorrow, I will...

I haven't seen any efforts on the part of newspapers to adapt to the changing conditions, (except for cost cutting). Most companies continually adapt to their changing market conditions, but for some reason newspapers didn't bother. I have not seen one single change in the local paper in the...

Someone told me that Microsoft has a free office suite that can be used online. He said it was called Virtual Office, but I don't see anything about it being a free online version. Has anyone heard of such a thing? I use Microsoft Works version 3.0. I don't want to say just how old it is, but...

I heard it once suggested that newspapers could charge readers to participate in online discussions on it's website. However, even if that worked, why would the newspaper use that revenue to keep it's print edition going? They wouldn't. Just an aside - the discussion on newspaper websites...

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What about this poor guy? My octagenerian next door neighbor has the local paper delivered every day. Each morning as I'm doing my pre-jog stretches on the stairs, I can see through the window to his apartment. He's dutifully doing the daily crossword. Print newspapers are still a part of...

I guess it's really just evolution or even progress, but it feels like failure to me.

As a teen my parents bought me a few paperback classics, all reprints from the same publisher. I remember all of them were poorly bound. Off the top of my head I remember reading White Fang and Silas Marner, there were a few others too. A couple of years ago while standing in line at B&N I...

Don't have a reccomendation for you, but the first book store that I ever saw a "gay interest" section was a Super Crown in La Jolla CA. It was probably back in the mid 90's when I first found it, and it was a pretty well stocked section. Once while browsing in it I kept noticing a beady eyed...

Now I'm wondering if generic ebook readers that can read Kindle format will be coming onto the market soon.

It's nice to see that Random House is optimistic enough in this economy to go out and buy another publishing house. I had the 1989 version of What Color is Your Parachute? when I was preparing to leave the navy. I can't believe it's been twenty years.

You can get newspapers and magazines on the Kindle, so Hearst is competing against a formidable foe. I don't have a Kindle for one reason only - the price. It's too expensive.

Paper has become the comfort blanket for newspeople???? Snatch it out of their hands??? This isn't the first time I've heard someone express CONTEMPT for print news media. I remember a blogger who practically celebrated when the NYT stopped printing stock tables. I simply PREFER print media. I...

A Wall Street Journal story says that two other cities with two papers, Seattle and Tucson, will each lose one paper probably within the next few weeks. We are witnessing the end of an era.

I jsut looked at the price on that February 2, 1992 final edition. It was 23 cents. It reminded me that there was a newly enacted tax on newspapers, so they lowered their prices from 25 to 23 cents so that you could still pay a quarter and the newsstand.

San Diego used to have two papers, the San Diego Union was the morning paper and the San Diego Tribune was the evening paper. The front page of the Tribune was printed on a distinct green newsprint. When the first Gulf War erupted, the Tribune sent out three to four editions every day. February...

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Remember Joe the Plumber? Of course you do. He's a writer now, but his book signing didn't go very well. His fifteen minutes expired long ago. From the Washington Post: