Hello All,
Wired has recently reported on a San Francisco project aimed, I think, at
another market segment of news-hungry commuters. While I don't know if the
navigation abilities of a typical CD player will make this project useful,
we might do well to consider manufacturing and marketing our own brand of
portable reader. If we don't do it, someone else may do it, er, for
us. Article follows.
Bryan Bashin
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO BURN
The San Francisco Chronicle plans to offer a new service that will allow
subscribers to have the newspaper read to them. This October, the Chronicle
plans to release an audio version of the newspaper that can be downloaded
and burned onto a personalized CD. Subscribers to the service, which will
cost between $5 and $10 a month for newspaper customers, can burn up to 60
minutes of stories on a CD each morning. Jonathan Hiller, the Chronicle's
chief information officer, said that unlike a radio broadcast, subscribers
to the Chronicle audio edition will be able to choose the news they want,
free of advertising, and hear an entire newspaper story on the CD. Hiller
said the service is perfect for on-the-go professionals. "We are constantly
trying to understand what our readers want and deliver it to them."
[SOURCE: Wired, AUTHOR: Elisa Batista]
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. com/news/business/0,1367,55094,00.html)
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