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Missing The Point

Newspaper operations are in a tizzy thanks to some success with Tablet PC delivery by magazines, according to Editor & Publisher. Towards the end of the article, a few publishing concerns claim that they can easily automate the task of converting pages into a format readable by Zinio's PDF-reader-on-steroids.

That's great, but a dead page is still a dead page. The point of putting the dang thing on a TabletPC is so that it can be interacted with. Otherwise it's Worse Than Paper (TM). Not going to be able to make it better by automated processing from pre-print. Heck, I can't even see a path to incorporating interesting Flash like dynamic content, which, while irritating, might actually be a step forward.

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