John Connolly says:

I've got to agree with Mark on this one, it is pretty cool. I'm not sure it is going anywhere though. Who pays for online news content these days?

Mark Blaskovich says:

Given the fact that I considered their web site to be abysmal in the past, this is clearly a quantum leap for DMN. Through the years I have watched local online news move from StarText to the proprietary Adobe-like files (tell em, Sarah, about Mizzou's foray into this), to browser-based content of nearly everyone. Now (finally!!!) DMN moves that direction.

When DMN tried to do it, I was driven to "anywhere but Belo" by their abusive use of pop-up, march across, spit at me ads. About 2 months ago I seriously tried to decide if I should give up my print edition of the DMN. Increasing the price by 50% didn't help, mind you. I hate to carry piles of print to the recycle bin every 2 weeks but, darn it, I really love to sit in my chair every morning before the sun rises with that hot cup of Joe and my local paper. With the right online delivery method I could dump the paper and sit with a laptop. This starts to be that.

Now, will DMN drop the price 50% if they don't have to stage, print and deliver my paper copy?

Jason Rice says:

::Now, will DMN drop the price 50% if they don't have to stage, print and deliver my paper copy?

Every bit as quickly as Sony/RCA dropped the price of an album on an 18 track CD at $18 to $0.99 a track -- at reduced resolution with compression noise artifacts as a bonus! Woohoo!

-- the DMN equiv will probably be non-optional spam.

alexander troup says:

Good point jason...eat the rag before you gag...A/T,...PULP FICTION...