Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Will new, larger Kindle save newspapers? Nope, says PC World

PC World magazine columnist Melissa J. Perensen predicts that the new Kindle won't save newspapers. His reasoning: It's pretty expensive for material that can be had for free. The question of how long newspapers are going to offer all their material for free continues. I predict it won't be all that long as newspaper management realize that online isn't providing enough profit to keep them running. The same hold true for online-only sites. Sure onmilwaukee.com is pretty good, as is the Shepherd-Express' remodeled site at expressmilwaukee.com, but both have only a handful of reporters, paid exceedingly poorly by the way, and it takes reporting to really fill needs. I've always felt you get what you pay for.

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