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dangermouse75
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Ok, so I'm guessing on the date, but sometime fairly soon, you'll be taking out a subscription of Webuser and having it delivered to a device like this tablet.
Something as slick as that is not available yet, but Michael Arrington of Techcrunch has laid down his challenge to have one built.
They already have many volunteers 
There are many advantages to electronic delivery:
- It slashes the delivery and production costs for publishing houses.
- The magazine can be sold all over the world at one price.
- Articles from each edition can be bookmarked for later reading.
- Readers will be able to open up links as they read the article.
- Back issues can be accessed at the flick of a button.
- If you want to find a feature from a previous issue, it could be searched for and found in seconds.
- The editors can conduct regular questionnaires electronically to tailor the content for the readership.
- Any mistakes made in the articles can be edited on the fly.
We can already subscribe to an electronic edition of Webuser of course.
But the iPhone has shown how user-friendly touch screen are, and it will be this new touch screen technology that will herald another new dawn of digital age.
Roll on Webuser Tablet Edition!
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Goonster
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I still think paper will dominate and still be more popular. There is something about holding the mag in your hands.Its just not the same reading it on a computer or tablet PC.
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dangermouse75
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Yes, I don't think we'll ever see the end of paper.
It would be nice to pay one subscription and get both paper and tablet.
The main benefactors would be newspapers. They could offer 3 monthly subscriptions and readers could have as up to date news as the BBC News website, presuming newspapers altered their business models and published the news on the fly through the day.
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dangermouse75
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This device would be perfect for Google Gears too, uploading web content to view offline on the train... that is until all the train companies provide free wi-fi.
Looking further ahead, maybe 10 years or so, films will probably be able to be streamed to it... or is that wishful thinking?
Why stop there? Add a Sat Nav and you could have a walking 3-D map in your hand. You'd never get lost again This is already in the pipe line.
Finally, I guess I'll have to wait til I'm about 50 for this one.. 2025... I want all the films ever made available to download from a huge online directory. Also all of the BBC archives too.
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