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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Electronic War of Newspapers - 電子版新聞の戦況
その後、電子版を不熱心ながらちらちらと見ています。朝刊・夕刊の頁には紙面をそのまま見られる機能があって、全頁一覧したり、頁ごとに見たり、今日はこれに興味が湧きました。なんとそこにiPhoneの全面広告があるではないですか!拡大表示してみると意外に画質がちゃんとしています。記事の方はひとつひとつ枠取りできて、自在にズーム可能です。幾分、紙を読む雰囲気を残してくれる部分でした。でもあまりにカラー広告が多いので、本物の新聞と比較してみると、確かに同じでしたが、別枠で広告料金稼いだりしないんですかね?
ところで普天間基地の速報が午後に飛び込んできたので、各紙のサイトをざっと見比べてみました。時間は14時半過ぎ、朝日・毎日は反応なし。何事もないかの如く、自社広告に悦に入っていて良いんですか、毎日さん?日経はこの時点でバナーだけ載せていて情報は上がっていません。読売に行くとしっかり速報記事が出ていました。10数分後、日経に戻ってみるとトップ画面に速報記事が盛り込まれていましたが、この勝負は読売の勝ちかな。ネットは速さ勝負の場ですが、紙媒体の方は新聞と言えども使い捨てでない記事をあげて欲しいですね。
I keep my eye on the electronic news, not too seriously though. Nikkei provides a section where the exact paper copy can be viewed in thumbnails or page-to-page to stimulate my interest. There was a full-page ad of iPhone today! Zooming it up, the image quality was quite good. The articles are separated in highlight and allow non-step, smooth zoom for reading, which somewhat maintains the habbit of reading a paper. There were rather many color pages of ads today and I thought I had to compare this with the paper version, and found it was the exact copy. Don’t they charge their clients any separate advertising fee for this?
BTW, a news flash came in around 14:30 about the government’s plans for transferring the US military base in Okinawa, and I checked the status of major newspaper web sites taking this opportunity. Asahi and Mainichi had no mention at all. Nikkei only posted a banner with no articles. Yomiuri already had a flash article on their top page. About 10-15 minutes later, when I got back to Nikkei’s page, they also had an article. In this case, Yomiuri seems to be the winner. It is definitely the speed in the net that we value the information, but when it comes to printed media, I would hope the journalist raise articles that are tough to fade even in a paper.
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