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Updated: May 27, 2025
'We won't need journalists any more when a good browser for News groups is available', Michael Hauben of Columbia University warned two years ago. 'The more people there are on-line, the more marginalized the professional information media will be. This is rubbish.
Although on-line services create some new jobs, as directors of organizations of newspaper publishers often claim, the unions have also stated that the number of job creations is much lower than the number of dismissals.
The opening of barnesandnoble.com sparked a fierce price war in a low-margin business. It now competes directly with the main on-line bookstore Amazon.com. Because of this competition, Amazon.com came to be known as "Amazon.toast". Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, doesn't fear the competition though.
The Internet is certainly a more accessible and convenient medium, and thus it would be better in the long run if the strengths of the print media could be brought on-line without the extensive costs and copyright concerns that are concomitant. As the transition is made, the neat thing is a growing accountability for previously relatively unreproachable edifices.
The plain fact is that no one is going to sit there and read a whole book on-line. And it costs money and time to download it'." Some sites maintain a directory of publishers, for example, Publishing Companies Online and Publishers' Catalogues. Do Authors Still Need Publishers? The Internet has considerably reinforced the relations between the authors and their readers.
We are also witnessing the first steps of an on-line press which would be different from the paper version and would have its own criteria. Some publishers of specialized periodicals, as well as academic and research works, are thinking about becoming "only" electronic to escape the paper publishing crisis, or making only small print runs when necessary.
Amazon.com handles the secure on-line ordering, customer service, and shipping and sends weekly e-mail sales reports. Enrollment in the program is free, and participants can be up and running the same day. Associates range from large and small businesses to nonprofits, authors, publishers, personal home pages, and more.
The site of the Los Angeles Times will soon be equipped with a machine translation software provided by Alis Technologies which will translate the web pages into Spanish and French, and later into Japanese. The Washington Post gives the daily news on-line, and has a full database of articles, with images, sound and video.
The price point was another major criterion: I wanted a low-priced product. I reasoned that since this was the first purchase many people would make on-line, it had to be non-threatening in size. A third criterion was the range of choice: there were 3 million items in the book category and only a tenth of that in CDs, for example.
After the United Kingdom, Norway has the next most 53 and Germany has 43. Australia and other islands have 64 on-line newspapers." The Web is the site of a collaborative effort between several companies in newspaper publishing. It was closed on March 10, 1998, because of dissension and a lack of cohesion between the partners.
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