{"id":665,"date":"2004-05-07T08:04:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-07T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/electronic_editions_vs_web_sit\/"},"modified":"2004-05-07T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-07T15:04:18","slug":"electronic_editions_vs_web_sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/electronic_editions_vs_web_sit.html","title":{"rendered":"ELECTRONIC EDITIONS VS. WEB SITE VERSIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Shafer’s piece, “Honey, They Shrunk the
\nNewspaper,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> is generally right about a lot of things wrong with the
\nelectronic editions (vs. the standard Web site versions) of The Washington Post, the Los Angeles
\nTimes and The New York Times — and what’s right about them. (Here in miniature is what an electronic
\nedition<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> looks like.) He’s exactly right when he says: <\/P>
\n

E-editions preserve the information-rich typography of print by displaying
\nreplicas of the newsprint page. An e-edition reader has a leg up on the reader of the HTML
\nversion of the paper because the original typefaces and placement retained in PDF give the
\ne-edition reader clues about the intended rank and “play” of a news story (in the editors’ opinion).
\nWeb sites suffer on this score because most stories are presented in long lists of plain
\ntext.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

But the standard, broadband Web site versions we’ve become accustomed to also have their
\nadvantages. For instance, Rwanda: 10 years of
\npain<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, from Newsday, is a broadband Web report not to be missed.
\nYou can’t find it in Newsday’s print edition, and you wouldn’t find it in an electronic edition (even
\nif Newsday had one).<\/P>
\n

An easy prediction: The day can’t be far off when Web-based designers will meld electronic
\neditions and broadband Web site versions in user-friendly packages to give us the best  and
\nworst of both worlds.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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