Nick Bilton - is a Designer, User Interface Specialist, Technologist, Journalist, Hardware Hacker, Researcher, etc. etc.
You don’t need a computer science degree to conclude the results of this research. Digital magazines are currently too big and bulky and almost defeat one of their main intended purposes, the promise of instant access to content and information.
What an utterly disingenuous, fraudulent article! Firstly, he provides not a clue to the speed of his internet connection. He may have been using dial-up from the way it downloads so slowly. The correlation between the time it took him to acquire the dead-tree version and the time it takes him to download the digital version, is meaningless, wholly specious. No intellectually-honest attempt was made to compare the two versions. I could provide numerous of examples how, why this article makes is utterly biased, an outright insult to the intelligence of its readers as demonstrated in the article's comments.
The thing is that the abject fear of all those whose economic well-being is so dependent, intertwined, with the success (lack thereof) of the dead-tree version, as so palpably demonstrated by one as pusillanimous as the phony-sounding moniker of "Nick Bilton", that objectivity, straight-talk is sacrificed in the name of "survival". How is the attitude of Nick Bilton, his head stuck up you know where, going to forestall the inevitably of the paper of record going out of business in the slightest? How is this drivel going to change the reality of "Nick Bilton" and his ilk as part of the crew merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? He must be terribly desperate to sell himself out as unconscionably, cheaply as he did for not much of anything in return.
I totally agree with you. Bogus from the get-go.
I can just imagine a typical NY Times reader thinking that it might be cool to download a magazine with an iPad.
The publishers worry more about names than they do quality. They aren’t bringing in talent, or new concepts, or anything in depth. It’s nothing that interests people and the doors are shut tight. These days more people are self publsihing at content websites than they are trying to break into the established literati circles. There’s no point and the press aren’t really going out and finding the sotry, but waiting for the story ot come to them.
Nonsense, I dloaded a few newspapers in pdf and they are less than 5MB total. I never counted the pages but they have enough.
Two, not everyone can go around the corner and find Wired
I dunno about the author, but I get the Economist as a direct download and it takes roughly 45 seconds to 1 minute to download an issue.
Nick Bilton - is a Designer, User Interface Specialist, Technologist, Journalist, Hardware Hacker, Researcher, etc. etc.
I don’t like to rely on something that requires a power supply for my information.
This screed has entertainment value but nothing else.
One could very well want electronic and hard copies of a publication for different reasons. You can’t instantly word search the dead tree, and it requires awkward maneuvers to scrutinize finely detailed pictures in the e-magazine.
Even if the goal is to humanly read the whole thing as fast as possible, the e-magazine could feasibly download while it is being read, making the delay moot.