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Subject: [Leica] kindle and newspapers
From: leica at ralgo.nl (bruce golding)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:01:34 +0200
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Merci, Philippe.

Je vais l'ajouter a ma ma liste de sources d'informations.

Normalement, je regarde les nouvelles a la tele. des pays latins et  
ceux du nord (teutonics). C'est deux facons differentes de voir les  
choses; + bien sur uncle sam!

Salutations,
B.


On 13-mei-2009, at 20:41, Philippe AMARD wrote:

> I don't know if this is published elsewhere in other languages, but  
> the French edition of Courrier International is to my eyes a very  
> good insight into today's world and might be of some interest to  
> some of you.
> http://www.courrierinternational.com/
> Phx
>
>
> bruce golding wrote:
>
>> when i first visited the states, i encountered a "book" of a   
>> newspapers. it was a week-end, i believe.
>>
>> pages and pages of opinion, thought, report, some photos., far  
>> far  too much sport; drivel for everyone's taste.
>>
>> saddened, because i spent hours trying to find the us and world  
>> news,  without true success, i renounced the challenge.
>>
>> years later, when living in paris, i quickly discovered the  
>> "trib.";  between 4 and 6 pages of world news and then the us  
>> sports; but quick  and easy to read.
>> now that was, for me, a news-paper. for opinion i went to le monde.
>>
>> the week-end 'papers and magazines in the uk were split into   
>> sections, so that one could and still can, read only the parts of   
>> interest.
>> the magazines had the most wonderful picture stories on events  
>> from  the world, plus often indulgences to narrating, for example,  
>> the life  of a horologist ........
>>
>> in the uk this market still exists, at the week-end, i think,   
>> but ............
>>
>> for the rest of western europe, national and local 'papers are   
>> dying ....... rapidly.
>> commuters rely on the give-away editions; even in small towns for   
>> local news, delivered weekly to the door.
>>
>> journalists with a personality which establishes a rapport with  
>> the  reader, will continue to be read somewhere, i hope.
>> but, for the rest, it's over.
>>
>> we are bombarded with information. to do/achieve what? each tries  
>> to  out-do the other, why? competition of the species.
>> to gain more, live grander; to what end? we sleep in one bed at a   
>> time, require to eat satisfactorily and healthily, delight in  
>> family  and friends, enjoy ..........
>> our LEICAS. give and maybe receive ..........
>>
>> time to conclude, byee
>> b.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11-mei-2009, at 18:29, Phil Swango wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>> ===================================
>>>
>>> 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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