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juliet ([personal profile] juliet) wrote in [personal profile] ciphergoth 2011-10-17 02:45 pm (UTC)

given that wifi on trains is no longer free

Wifi isn't, but plenty of people have some variety of unlimited phone-data package, so either tethering, or online news which reads well on tiny mobile screens, may outcompete the i-type model anyway.

I suspect, or at least hope, that the new models will be hard on the really junky tabloids

See, I think that the really junky tabloids are more likely to survive, because what they're providing is arguably not really all that closely related to news; or at least not *solely* to that. And I suspect that their target market is less likely to be ready, at least at this point, to move to online reading. (Mind you, this depends where exactly the 'really junky' line is drawn.)

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