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News & ArtsFriday, July 10, 2009
Media This Totally Did Not Save the Media
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Back in January, I told you about a new venture called The Printed Blog:
The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it twice daily via print. The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed - yet can still be enjoyed on the train or spread across the breakfast table, for an uninterrupted, pleasurably tactile experience.
Well, today, The Printed Blog announced that they were closing down:
According to Karp, the final numbers for The Printed Blog look like this: “16 issues, 80,000 print copies distributed, another 100,000 or so copies downloaded…. [and] zero regrets.”
This is, obviously, tragic and unforeseeable. How could that plan have possibly failed?
(Via Fading to Black, which is relentlessly and fastidiously documenting the end of the news industry.)
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It was like the TV show a while back that would just air Youtube videos. Why the hell would I want my content in a less convent form and especially why the fuck would I pay for that?
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Remember when the print industry and newspapers died in the 19th Century?
Never to return.
or ... you could read this month's Vanity Fair where they point out the whole thing with having a book or a newspaper is not to read it on Kindle where nobody can tell you peruse the Economist or Financial Times, but so that others can see you're reading it and thereby perceive your status.
Coming soon ... Kindle 3 - where the back shows the "book" you're reading in a prominent logo way. The sales in Dubai alone will make this fly off the shelves, where Gucci is king.
Never to return.
or ... you could read this month's Vanity Fair where they point out the whole thing with having a book or a newspaper is not to read it on Kindle where nobody can tell you peruse the Economist or Financial Times, but so that others can see you're reading it and thereby perceive your status.
Coming soon ... Kindle 3 - where the back shows the "book" you're reading in a prominent logo way. The sales in Dubai alone will make this fly off the shelves, where Gucci is king.
4
That was a horrible idea. Combine the vapidity of the Internet with the the worst parts of the paper.
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