n a digital age of 24-hour rolling news, newspapers worldwide are investing resources in their online editions. But a US publisher has gone back in time by launching a print-only broadsheet in the style of a 19th-century newspaper., it is responding to a demand from readers for in-depth stories and writing that needs time to savour. It will not have an internet edition.
“People read differently on the printed page than they do on a screen,” said the newspaper’s editor, David Samuels. “The printed page is an immersive experience without constant distractions or the spectre of other people’s responses on social media. It’s a much more enriching and human experience.” It adds: “We hope to advance the same relationship to America that Bob Dylan had when he wrote his versions of folk songs … We have the same relationship to our subjects that Mark Twain and William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison and Tom Wolfe had when they wrote about America and Americans.
The newspaper’s potential has been recognised by book and record shops across the US and Canada, which are displaying it prominently. It costs $8.50 ; the first issue launched in the summer with no advertising, but through word of mouth its 25,000 copies sold out.
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