Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Still thinking of a title
After reading the more current issue of The Economist online I came across an interesting article (http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13109804) about how Amazon's Kindle and competing products could rekindle (yes I did intentionally use that word) the lagging newsprint and magazine industry. To me this makes a lot of sense. I don't read the newspaper often unless I have nothing else to read. It's quite cumbersome to read a newspaper in cramped spaces and you end up getting newsprint on your hands. Ever since I've gotten a Blackberry I've been reading a lot of news and reading magazine articles while I ride the light rail. I can very easily see how a product like the Kindle or even the iPhone could help to provide major newspapers like The New York Times or Wall Street Journal a whole group of new customers. As the Economist article points out, cellphone users pay for lots of trivial extras like ring tones or wallpapers so it does make sense to me that they would pay to have magazine and news paper content on their phones as well.
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