Comments on: Why I quit buying the Sunday paper http://daryllang.com/blog/244 Daryl Lang's blog about media, culture and transit Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Betsy http://daryllang.com/blog/244/comment-page-1#comment-80 Betsy Mon, 05 May 2008 16:50:45 +0000 http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=244#comment-80 I wonder if a format change would help papers at all. Now that we have an alternative, who wants a big bulky pile of newsprint that gets all over your fingers and clothes? Not to mention how unappealing the paper is after a day or so. At my old job, the attempt to market e-books was a raging disaster. No one wants to read books on their screen or carry around smaller screens to read on the subway and books feel so good in your hands. I wonder if a format change would help papers at all. Now that we have an alternative, who wants a big bulky pile of newsprint that gets all over your fingers and clothes? Not to mention how unappealing the paper is after a day or so. At my old job, the attempt to market e-books was a raging disaster. No one wants to read books on their screen or carry around smaller screens to read on the subway and books feel so good in your hands.

]]> By: Renee http://daryllang.com/blog/244/comment-page-1#comment-79 Renee Mon, 05 May 2008 02:40:39 +0000 http://daryllang.com/blog/?p=244#comment-79 Interesting that you argue in favor of the magazine. I still have not found a daily paper Web site that has managed to translate the importance of DESIGN into the electronic medium (electronic editions of pdfs do not count). For example, the NYT and WashPost do a little of this with varying headline sizes on their front dot-com page, but photo packages are reduced to galleries where no one image is dominant and they all have practically the same crop. Most news front pages are built for text content and click-throughs, not for design. It saddens me. Interesting that you argue in favor of the magazine. I still have not found a daily paper Web site that has managed to translate the importance of DESIGN into the electronic medium (electronic editions of pdfs do not count). For example, the NYT and WashPost do a little of this with varying headline sizes on their front dot-com page, but photo packages are reduced to galleries where no one image is dominant and they all have practically the same crop.

Most news front pages are built for text content and click-throughs, not for design. It saddens me.

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