Will Newspaper Subscriptions Become Part of the Digital World?

Filed in archive Quick introduction on March 8, 2010

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I like newspapers. I used to write for one (okay, I used to write for a couple, actually). Newspapers are a nice way to keep track, keep in touch with places where I used to live. And since I've lived on four continents and in 14 time zones, I like newspapers...

I used to drive in to a library where I could look at a couple of international newspapers - The South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Times of India. But it's harder to find the Augusta Chronicle in a library like that.

I was pleased to discover recently that its now pretty easy to get a newspaper subscription over the Internet. Lots of little community papers don't have online versions. And let's face it, the online version of most papers really isn't the same thing as the print edition.

Not everything that's important in life is on the Web, but that doesn't mean you can't get it over the web...