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No, The Apple Tablet Won't Save Publishing Nor Will It End 'Free'

Posted at 7:25AM Wednesday 27 Jan 2010

We've been seeing an awful lot of chatter in the past couple months over the idea that some sort of "tablet" will somehow "save" the media business by suddenly making people start paying for content again. We've yet to see any sort of analysis that explains why. Nearly all of it seems to be from journalists who are involved in wishful thinking and rarely are they able to explain the reasoning.

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