Obama Wins; Print Is Not Dead!
When walking into work on Wednesday, I noticed that the Washington Post was sold out of the machine I pass every day. This is the first time that has happened since I started this job.
This simple fact is that people want a real newspaper for a souvenir. No one wants a crappy internet printout.
Nico Hines, of the UK’s Times Online site reports:
Obamamania has left newsstands across the US empty and newspapers rushing to print thousands of extra copies as Americans hurried to buy souvenir editions celebrating the election of the first black president.
The New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times were widely sold out by mid-morning as Americans woke up wanting to commemorate the landmark in US history.
In Barack Obama’s hometown the demand was even greater with the Chicago Tribune restarting its presses to print an extra 200,000, ten times the expected increase. Still they sold out.
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