Re: Digital Magazines

**N* S* <s*@earthlink.net>**

Yesterday, Detroit's two major dailies, The Detroit News and The  
Detroit Free Press announced due to revenue losses, they will be  
suspending home deliveries on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and  
Saturday, however both papers would be available online.  The  
Thursday, Friday and Sunday editions are the most widely read and  
they will continue to be delivered. The daily papers will however, be  
available at news boxes and regular outlets. Additional layoffs will  
come from production and drivers.

The websites ( that are currently both very poor) will be improved.   
My weekly Gardening column and Jeff Ball's Yardening column will  
continue to  printed in a tab section that will  home delivered in  
both papers, hopefully on Sunday.
Nancy Szerlag

On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:39 AM, James Allison wrote:

> A company sends me the link to their pet trade magazine "on line". It
> has all the zoom and page turning abilities, and uses Flash type
> software.
>
> Two problems:
> 1) The text is often very difficult to read on coloured/graphic
> backgrounds unless zoomed to a high level.
> 2) The software is *#@/*
> In fact, despite having a well spec'd computer with the latest
> version of Flash, I've never succeeded in seeing more than a couple
> of pages before my IE browser locks up and crashes. The publisher
> didn't respond to my comments, and I've no idea how many (or how few)
> customers ever manage to read the magazine online.
>
> I think Doug's points are also very valid. Unless it is a small
> magazine/journal that folk are likely to print out and keep (in which
> case pdf is the way to go), I would avoid putting it online in that
> format.
>
> Take the hint from the big newspapers. They don't put their issues
> online as a direct copy of their print editions. They adapt the
> content into individual articles in a website layout.
>
>
> Email from James Allison
>
>
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Nancy Szerlag
Columnist for Detroit News
szerlag@earthlink.net
Check blog at www.gardeneryardener.blogspot.com

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