Entrepreneur To Publish Blogs In Print Form
CBC.ca:
While newspapers throughout North America struggle with declining revenues, a Chicago entrepreneur plans to launch a new newspaper that reprints blogs in print format.
The first issues of The Printed Blog are to go on sale Tuesday in Chicago and San Francisco.
The three-page, full-colour newspaper will consist exclusively of online content from over 300 local and national blogs. The plan is to publish an a.m. and a p.m. edition daily and distribute the papers at high-traffic locations such as subway stations.
The paper is the brainchild of Joshua Karp, a former software entrepreneur and an avowed lover of the printed word, He says he plans to present a mix of national and local blogs, on both news and current affairs and personal topics.
“I think that there is a strong and rich tradition of people who read the newspaper and people enjoy the process of getting it and going through it, and I don’t think it will go away,” Karp told CBC’s Q cultural affairs show.
“Our primary difference is that we’re pulling from a well of content online. We have bloggers that write on every conceivable topic who have offered to move up to the paper,” he said in an interview aired Monday.
So while traditional newspapers are rushing to boost their online content, The Printed Blog will take what’s online and make it available to the person who likes to have reading material he or she can hold onto.
Photo: Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York Times.
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