Comments on: Times Reader 2.0 is a big step up

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:00:00 +0000

I’m just trying the Times Reader 2.0 out for the first time. I Really like it! I would definitely pay more than the $3.45 / week asking price for the Globe edition of this. I don’t subscribe to the Globe because I really don’t want pounds of paper delivered to my doorstep each week when I can read the Globe online or pick up a shared copy at my local cafe. I’m hoping the Times Reader 2.0 is a glimpse of the new Times and Boston Globe.

-Jeff

By: Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:23:00 +0000

Esther: Ha, ha! Well, some people hate cockroaches, too. What bothers you about the Kindle so much?

By: Esther

Esther — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:17:00 +0000

Ugh. I hate the whole idea of the Kindle.

By: Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:25:00 +0000

Bill: I’d have to grab a print edition and do a page-by-page comparison. But certainly the goal is for there to be no difference.

By: Bill Toscano

Bill Toscano — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:56:00 +0000

Dan: No content difference at all?

I think this and the bigger Kindle are good things.

By: Peter Porcupine

Peter Porcupine — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Dk - the trees aren't just flowering and turning green because it's spring. They're happy!

In the future, I really see paid Kindle as newsprint. Esp. when the new, larger Kindle comes out.

There may be Kindle-only exclusives, etc., and capacity to print Kindle editions as Adobe quality pages. Stories, columns, etc. may be the iPod downloads of the future.

When iPod began, the mantra was - there's radio - for free! By reaching a reasonalbe price point, iPod triumphed.

You may be looking at the salvation of the journalism business.

By: rozzie02131

rozzie02131 — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:35:00 +0000

If the Globe did this, I’d buy it in a second. It wouldn’t make them any extra money because I already buy their electronic edition, but it fixes the biggest problem of these replica editions: trying to fit a long rectangular news page into a wide rectangular computer screen.

The other thing newspapers need to do is to create a broad-based consortium from their subscription services so if you pay one price you get access to all. This consortium already exists in the newspaper replica world, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to transfer into a Times Reader/Globe Reader/WaPo Reader/Guardian Reader world.