Comments on: Newspapers Courting Gadget Lovers? There’s An Ad For That http://paidcontent.org/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/ The economics of digital content Thu, 23 May 2013 04:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James Cridland http://paidcontent.org/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75434 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:00:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75434 News International tells paidContentUK: “It was online only and linked back to the site.”

Someone had better tell the person who booked it onto the television, then. I saw it on ITV, and rewound the ad to watch the whole thing.

]]> By: Dan E. Bloom http://paidcontent.org/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75433 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:57:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75433 Mary Susan MacDonald in Toronto is working on a very funny and insightful cartoon
at this very moment about the future of print newspapers in this
digital age. It will appear online very very soon, and she's good,
she's very good! I will post the link as soon as I see it. You can get
an early glimpse of it here, but there's nothing to see yet:
http://zippy1300.blogspot.com

]]> By: Keith Phillips http://paidcontent.org/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75432 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:53:12 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75432 Agreed. As a career print journalist nostalgic for the old days but also eagerly looking forward to electronic delivery of newspapers and magazines, I got a kick out of this.

]]> By: Dan E. Bloom http://paidcontent.org/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75431 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:36:56 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/11/30/419-newspapers-courting-gadget-lovers-theres-an-ad-for-that/#comment-75431 Great advert, yes. Loved it. And it's true, the best handheld is still the daily newspaper in print edition, yes. Reminds me of that new word somebody coined in the USA last year, "snailpapers", to refer somewhat nostalgically, to those old print newspapers that still get delivered to our doorsteps in the morning with news that is, well, 12 hours old already, but so what, the handheld device called a snailpaper is worth paying for, because it's readable and page turnable. Give me my snailpaper anytime. But E-reading news devices are cool, too. May both prosper and persevere!

]]>