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  • The $0 netbook that will save all media

    The $0 netbook that will save all media

    Posted on June 9, 2009 | No Comments
    What Simon Dumenco lacks in tech savvy he makes up in relative prescience. There are a few issues media companies are dealing with now. There is a loss of ad revenue, competition from blogs, and, most importantly, falling circulation rates in communities that actually crave local news but don't want to pay for it. There is a certain cohort of reader, however, that does not want to see the newspaper go away in its present form and there is a simple solution to their kvetching. Some folks expect the swift delivery of their news subscriptions in a format that is easily readable. While you could say "I thought that's what the Internet is all about!" how are you going to convince a generation - folks in their thirties and beyond, for example - with the expectation that every morning a newspaper will be on the doorstep and a magazine will be in the mail to give that up and read their news on a screen? By giving them a free e-reader.

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