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>From: Bryan Bashin <bashin@calweb.com>
>Subject: Another Audio Newspaper Source?
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>Hello All,
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>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.
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>Bryan Bashin
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>ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO BURN
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>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]
>(<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55094,00.html>http://www.wire d . com/news/business/0,1367,55094,00.html)
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