Comments on: Newspapers are dead, long live packaging http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/newspapers-are-dead-long-live-packaging/ Cheap Printer Ink Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:13:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tele2002 http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/newspapers-are-dead-long-live-packaging/comment-page-1/#comment-14867 Tele2002 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:19:30 +0000 http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/?p=1152#comment-14867 Well, pretty interesting, Michael I think you are half right with the shipping part, but the printing part not, much like the argument about e-books, newspapers still have a market in a printed form, it's just that printed form needs to change to be more of what the consumer wants and not what the newspaper publishers want to force on you. I've written 4 seperate blogs on the concept of a kiosk style news on demand type of system where you can configure the type of news you want to read and the content is as up to date as the internet. The consumer then only chooses the journalism they want to read, some will choose the trashy entertainment stars news, others sport and other a mixture of everything.... The second part is then the advertising element, this then offers the ability to provide pricing tiers for the printed material based on the advertising that is also delivered with the selected content, that advertising can then be fully consumer targeted based on demographic information and selected type of content.... With 6.7 billion people on the planet news delivery needs to change, the internet provides us a means to harvest and deliver it the news, but the printed form provides the means to reach the masses who are without any connection to the world wide web. Well, pretty interesting, Michael I think you are half right with the shipping part, but the printing part not, much like the argument about e-books, newspapers still have a market in a printed form, it’s just that printed form needs to change to be more of what the consumer wants and not what the newspaper publishers want to force on you.

I’ve written 4 seperate blogs on the concept of a kiosk style news on demand type of system where you can configure the type of news you want to read and the content is as up to date as the internet. The consumer then only chooses the journalism they want to read, some will choose the trashy entertainment stars news, others sport and other a mixture of everything….

The second part is then the advertising element, this then offers the ability to provide pricing tiers for the printed material based on the advertising that is also delivered with the selected content, that advertising can then be fully consumer targeted based on demographic information and selected type of content….

With 6.7 billion people on the planet news delivery needs to change, the internet provides us a means to harvest and deliver it the news, but the printed form provides the means to reach the masses who are without any connection to the world wide web.

]]> By: Esz http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/newspapers-are-dead-long-live-packaging/comment-page-1/#comment-14848 Esz Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:38 +0000 http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/?p=1152#comment-14848 Yup gotta love packaging (you knew I would reply to this one hehe). I was telling some students exactly this not a few weeks ago :-D Yup gotta love packaging (you knew I would reply to this one hehe). I was telling some students exactly this not a few weeks ago :-D

]]> By: Michael Jahn http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/index.php/archive/newspapers-are-dead-long-live-packaging/comment-page-1/#comment-14817 Michael Jahn Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:39:10 +0000 http://www.prepresspilgrim.com/?p=1152#comment-14817 Nice Post ! Distributing information by printing it somewhere and shipping it somewhere else simply does not make a lot of sense anymore. I just hope they invent to color version of eInk in a size that is a little bigger than what we are seeing with the Kindle. Having said that, we are seeing a bit of push back from students; http://bbridges51.edublogs.org/ I use Google News, and like FLYP -- http://www.flypmedia.com/ They are doing some nice things with other content providers, like this one with one of the few magazines I still subscribe to... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=powering-a-green-planet Nice Post !

Distributing information by printing it somewhere and shipping it somewhere else simply does not make a lot of sense anymore. I just hope they invent to color version of eInk in a size that is a little bigger than what we are seeing with the Kindle.

Having said that, we are seeing a bit of push back from students;

http://bbridges51.edublogs.org/

I use Google News, and like FLYP — http://www.flypmedia.com/

They are doing some nice things with other content providers, like this one with one of the few magazines I still subscribe to…

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=powering-a-green-planet

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