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Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts

Monday, May 17, 2010

The Nervous Breakdown/Print v. Online Periodicals

I am now a contributing writer at The Nervous Breakdown, which is an online pub you should be reading. My first TNB post is up today, and it's called "Ten ways to get Thrown out of Wilco." I hope you dig it, and I hope you comment on it.

TNB is one of those sites I follow regularly. It sort of represents my 21st century way of reading periodicals. The latest edition is always there for me online. I sign on when I want, read what I want, and I don't have to worry about the paper version finding its way into the recycle bin when I'm done.

Literary magazines aside, I can't remember the last time I paid for the print version of a magazine or newspaper. I might flip through one at a bookstore, and every time I get my oil changed they force a USA Today on me. But pay for a copy of a magazine from the rack? Doesn't happen. Buy a newspaper from the corner kiosk? Nope. Subscribe to a commercial magazine, even an excellent one? Probably not.

This runs completely counter to my reading habits with book-length stuff, where I won't accept any sort of electronic intrusion. I only want to look at a screen for so many hours of the day. The computer can't have everything.

Also, when reading something book-length, I don't want distraction, which is so easy on a computer.



See what I mean?

But what about you? What do you choose to read: print versions of magazines and newspapers? Electronic versions? Some combination thereof?




Yours in laying down the law,

Art



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