RE: News/400 Mag - electronic vs hard copy -- MIDRANGE-L

LOL. I'm just an old curmudgeon. I prefer reading my books in the hardcover
version. I get a nice little tax deduction when I donate them to the
library.

:-))

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:47 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: News/400 Mag - electronic vs hard copy

Paul,

I've standardized on tablet (thinkpad x60 type boxes and better) for a
while. You can view .pdf's on Nook's very nicely...and I can assure you
that both work just fine in my "executive library" ... :) I also read
Clancy on them as well... :)

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:29 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: News/400 Mag - electronic vs hard copy

Yes, but as Jerry intimated, one simply cannot take one's computer into the
men's room.

:-))

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:16 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: News/400 Mag - electronic vs hard copy

but people likely spend 10x as much time reading from a computer
screen than reading from paper. My guess is magazine publishers would
get more readership if their stuff was accessible in small chunks,
linked to from message boards like this one.

It is probably also most important that the advertiser gets the page
views that they want. An ad in a magazine cant be clicked on like an
online ad can.

-Steve

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Frankly, I wouldn't have a problem of them going to an electronic version
IFF and ONLY IFF they presented the magazine on their website as a WHOLE
MAGAZINE (like IBM's systems mag does) so that I could print is as a
COMPLETE PDF for viewing and archival purposes. I would have major

issues

if they only printed articles.

I'm getting a lot of mags electronically now but they're the same
electronically as if I had them in hard copy. Some of the electronic

reader

technology (especially being used in newspapers!) is really decent.

DR2

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