Rupert Murdoch: iPad the savior of newspapers?
April 8, 2010
The Australian has a great story of NewsCorp (and Fox and the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones and, oh, The Australian) chief Rupert Murdoch’s views on the iPad:
“It may well be the saving of the newspaper industry”, by making it cheaper to distribute content to a broader audience, Mr Murdoch said. He expected the iPad to have eight or nine competitors within 12 months.
“There’s going to be tens of millions of these things sold all over the world,” he said.
Let’s hope he’s right. It’s often been said that more people than ever are reading news content, but fewer than ever are paying for it. All eyes are on the WSJ as they try their pay-for-content model. Will the iPad provide that outlet? Is it digital paper?
Hell no. But I’m a traditionalist, and I refuse to buy an e-book reader until I can take notes on the damn thing.
Gizmodo summarized a much longer (and well-worth reading) article thusly: it’s a good starting point for the tablet.
But so far, there’s nothing the iPad does that my Palm Pre can’t.
