Comments on: ePaper – you still can’t wipe your Arse with it and they just want your money anyway http://ultraorange.net/2010/01/20/epaper-you-still-cant-wipe-your-arse-with-it-and-they-just-want-your-money-anyway/ madness, art and world affairs Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:05:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: orangeguru http://ultraorange.net/2010/01/20/epaper-you-still-cant-wipe-your-arse-with-it-and-they-just-want-your-money-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-15779 orangeguru Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:02:28 +0000 http://ultraorange.net/2010/01/20/epaper-you-still-cant-wipe-your-arse-with-it-and-they-just-want-your-money-anyway/#comment-15779 @Männig: I agree with you RSS and similar mechanisms should be "the future" - not those Kindles and other commercial ventures that offer less comfort at a higher price ... I am pretty confident that Apple will stuff it's vision for an eReader / tablet down our throats in a few days. But I think we also have to blame ourselves for getting ripped off. Most users are not willing to pay for website subscription. Salon.com and other have tried many concepts and none were really accepted by the users but the publishers kept loosing business. Also the Blog Revolution should have "inspired" readers to support good blogs / writers - but that didn't happen either. There are hardly ANY independent bloggers out these that can make a living from writing. Those few that make money make it from ads, not from payment from readers for their content. @Männig: I agree with you RSS and similar mechanisms should be “the future” – not those Kindles and other commercial ventures that offer less comfort at a higher price …

I am pretty confident that Apple will stuff it’s vision for an eReader / tablet down our throats in a few days.

But I think we also have to blame ourselves for getting ripped off. Most users are not willing to pay for website subscription. Salon.com and other have tried many concepts and none were really accepted by the users but the publishers kept loosing business.

Also the Blog Revolution should have “inspired” readers to support good blogs / writers – but that didn’t happen either. There are hardly ANY independent bloggers out these that can make a living from writing. Those few that make money make it from ads, not from payment from readers for their content.

]]> By: Jens Arne Männig http://ultraorange.net/2010/01/20/epaper-you-still-cant-wipe-your-arse-with-it-and-they-just-want-your-money-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-15776 Jens Arne Männig Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:09:49 +0000 http://ultraorange.net/2010/01/20/epaper-you-still-cant-wipe-your-arse-with-it-and-they-just-want-your-money-anyway/#comment-15776 Users prefer content in their browsers? Of course it's better than PDF or the incredible ePaper crap. However RSS and Atom feeds have been around for quite a while and are about the user friendliest stuff that currently exists. Read your news – and anything else – on any platform, in a browser or in a cute application based on your own customized CSS. It's here today. All letter based media on one platform. Anything else that showed up lately was just based on the economic interests of the media industry. Users prefer content in their browsers? Of course it’s better than PDF or the incredible ePaper crap. However RSS and Atom feeds have been around for quite a while and are about the user friendliest stuff that currently exists. Read your news – and anything else – on any platform, in a browser or in a cute application based on your own customized CSS. It’s here today. All letter based media on one platform. Anything else that showed up lately was just based on the economic interests of the media industry.

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