Newspaper Software

The New York Times Reader, a piece of software you can download to read the NYT on your PC, came out several similar readers for two British papers, Forbes magazine and a Seattle newspaper (PaidContent has more here). And like several other people, including David Rothman of TeleRead and might appeal to someone who only wants to read one newspaper, which I will admit is a possibility, but it still seems overly limiting to me).

I think it probably makes sense to the executives at the NYT, who approved the idea, or to similar executives at Forbes and Associated Newspapers — after all, the lure of such an idea is that it has the potential to replicate the same kind of physical control that newspapers enjoy in print, but in digital form. No cutting and pasting, no linking from the outside, no messy webpages or RSS feeds or any of that nonsense. Just a very pretty, very appealing, shares my bemusement at the whole idea of a dedicated app for a single publication, as does James Robertson. And Don Dodge disagrees with me and points out that “the business of software is about business, Comments

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