Recently, as you might have seen, Jack Schafer over at Slate did a good piece on "Shafer doubts e-tablets will save print media"...to which David Iams commented at Jim Romenesko's newspaper site:

Recently, as some of the readers of this blog might have seen -- all 2 of you, me and my mother -- we get just 2 hits per year here, sigh -- Jack Schafer over at Slate did a good piece on "Shafer doubts e-tablets will save print media"...to which David Iams commented at Jim Romenesko's newspaper site:

"Regarding Shafer's view of the digital tablet, I think he is overly pessimistic. The jury is still out on Kindle, but barely. Back in the... Regarding Shafer's view of the digital tablet, I think he is overly pessimistic. The jury is still out on Kindle, but barely. Back in the mid-1990s Knight Ridder began experimenting with a kindle-like newspaper with dreams of it even being intereactive (Hq for the project was in colorado as I recall). Ultimately, KNR dropped the idea, but I think it's still doable. Inevitably the cost will go down. Look at digital cameras and all the other hi-tech gadgets. There are still lots of readers who used to read the newspapeer on the train or bus to work -- and would like to continue doing so. I think there's a market there -- ads and all."

"There's also a comfort factor. Living in the country I have to read most newspapers off of a computer monitor, at an angle to my neck that leaves me with a headache all day long. (I can't get home delivery of The Inky or The times). A digital tablet would solve that. Plus I could take it to the bathroom."

-- David Iams (at Romenesko.org)