No, not boston.com, but something that feels more like the paper version, only on a computer screen, Dan Kennedy reports. Print subscribers will get it for free.
As Dan points out, the New York Times has a "Times Reader" edition for $14.95 per month. It's supposed to be "similar to the print edition" but easy to read on your computer screen.
It was "more like a newspaper" but the Times website has way more content than was available on each page of the Times Reader.
I paid for a month's subscription so I could try it out, but lost interest. Plus, why pay for something you get for free?
I had been hoping that the "Reader" version would include all the TImes' ads, especially the Theater section ads. It did not.
It's good the Globe is trying new things. The added cost must be minimal, but giving people options may help them find solution(s) to their revenue problems.
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AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHH
I really hope that this is a revenue-generating sideline, not what they think is actually a good technological medium for going forward.
Again? But that trick never works
How does this differ from The Boston Globe Electronic Edition which has been around since 2002?
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As Dan points out, the New York Times has a "Times Reader" edition for $14.95 per month. It's supposed to be "similar to the print edition" but easy to read on your computer screen.
It was "more like a newspaper" but the Times website has way more content than was available on each page of the Times Reader.
I paid for a month's subscription so I could try it out, but lost interest. Plus, why pay for something you get for free?
I had been hoping that the "Reader" version would include all the TImes' ads, especially the Theater section ads. It did not.
It's good the Globe is trying new things. The added cost must be minimal, but giving people options may help them find solution(s) to their revenue problems.
Nice trick!
Amazing-- a computer that feels like paper!
Without blackening your fingertips and shirt sleeves
And you don't have to lift your cereal bowl every time you turn the page.
(But it's still a Web-hostile choice of information technology.)