The Newspaper Isn't Dead Yet · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 21, 2009 @02:17AM from the through-no-fault-of-its-own dept.

theodp writes "Slate's Farhad Manjoo had high hopes for using the Kindle DX — Amazon's new large-screen e-reader — to read newspapers. A good first effort, says Manjoo, who concludes that for now newsprint still beats the $489 Kindle. While he has issues with latency, what he really misses relates to graphic design. The Kindle presents news as a list, leaving a reader to guess which pieces are most important to read. Newspapers, by contrast, opine on the importance of the day's news using easy-to-understand design conventions — important stories appear on front pages, with the most important ones going higher on the page and getting more space and bigger headlines. Also, because of its overnight delivery model, Manjoo gripes that the Kindle suffers from a lack of timeliness, making it not even as good as a smartphone."

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I find the paper much more cost-effective by localroger · 2009-06-21 02:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Lining my parrot's cage with Kindles would get expensive.

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Re:google news by owlnation · 2009-06-21 03:14 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm not sure if you realize this, but some people actually have to work when they get into the office.
Well, yes... some people do. Not anyone who reads /. though! So the original point was pretty valid for this audience!