[Leica] kindle and newspapers

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

The little Natchitoches Times seem to flourish these days.  It does five
issues a week with a fairly small staff.  They print it right here.  Lots of
community news, and their advertising is way up since the two "metros" have
stopped reporting from here.

The Shreveport Times and the Alexandria Town Talk, once quality papers, are
owned by Gannett now.

Those papers are from towns about an hours drive, and they both once had
offices with reporters living and working here.  They both have cut back
staff and production to the point that Monday and Tuesday editions  don't
offer enough paper to wrap the weekend's crawfish shells.





So I probably don't need to state that outside Sports and

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> 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
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> Albuquerque, NM 87108
> 505-262-4085
>
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