Very literally have not touched a physical paper in multiple years. Can’t even remember what year.
We get the Sunday New York Times as a physical paper.
Just wondering about the future of printed news.
Ok, I can see that.
Nope, they’re wildly different things. Mostly, the print paper is dependent upon local advertising and the number of pages printed varies with the amount of advertising they have. Without the advertising there is no print edition, period. That’s not at all true of the online paper.
And I don’t understand how your paper is the same online. No webpage is remotely similar to a print newspaper page. The Chicago Tribune webpage is utterly unlike any print newspaper page I’ve ever seen. I honestly cannot fathom what you’re saying here.
I absolutely don’t read actual newspapers. Digital ones of course, but paper ones, yeesh. What a waste. One more thing to recycle.
Last time I had a subscription was about 18 years ago.
He may not be talking about the newspaper’s website but its electronic edition, which is something else.
For example, I subscribe to the paper print version of the San Jose Mercury News. (To answer the OP’s question.)
The website is here. Standard newspaper website. But subscribers can go to the electronic edition where you can get an exact copy in pdf for every page in the print edition.
But it still doesn’t qualify for the purpose of this thread.
I know, as I said I do subscribe to the paper edition, delivered every day to my front door.
I was replying to the suggestion that one cannot get an exact copy of the paper on the Internet.
Ditto. I bought a Sunday edition once to lay on the floor for a painting project but I didn’t read anything on it but the stories on the front page.
To be honest the main reason I still subscribe to the print paper is for the NYT crossword puzzle. I simply must do that with pencil on paper.
AHA TIL something. I’ve never paid attention to electronic editions.
I realize I’m betraying how old I am by saying this, but how the hell can you read a replica newspage on an electronic device? I know, I know, people watch wide-screen movies on their phones. I find that impossible as well.
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One (Chicago Tribune). As others have noted, the quality has been declining, and now they’ve just been sold to a company known for turning newspapers into shit. Who knows how long I can justify continuing to pay for it.
What’s a newspaper?
I used to pick up the print edition of the local free weekly which carried the Straight Dope column but it went to shit when they dropped all the comics.
That’s funny, because I find the paper version of the puzzle much, much harder. I get through Friday and Saturday puzzles fairly quickly now, but I was never able to do that with paper. I’m much more apt to put in guesses in the electronic version – quite often, they’re right and they help me break the puzzle. When they’re wrong, they erase perfectly.
To the OP: Zero.
I subscribe to the NYT+Puzzle online, but nothing is delivered.
The NY Daily News also has that PDF version of the newspaper – that’s what my mother reads. @Czarcasm: The PDF version has all the ads that the paper version does, I believe. I’m not sure why that wouldn’t count, but it’s your thread.
It’s not a webpage as I explained. It’s a digital version of the exact same paper, local ad and all.
That’s why I distinguished between articles in an app or website and a digitized version of the same paper because I know they’re wildly different things.
Right. I explained my confusion already.
Now I want to know how you read the damn thing.
I’m so bad that if I miss the delivery of the newspaper for some reason, I go to the electronic edition I mentioned above, find the page with the crossword puzzle, and — print it out!
Due to undependable newspaper delivery in these parts (the carrier goes missing if there is a snowflake in the forecast) we don’t subscribe to paper copies anymore.
But we pick up a few papers (national and local) every Friday and read them over casual dinners out.
We currently have three digital paper subscriptions, two of which are promotional $1 for six months and are unlikely to be renewed.