Following the trend of the tablet, the publisher of the newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News plans to sell at a discount Android tablets following newspaper content.
Publisher Philadelphia Media Network plans to launch the 2000 tablet in mid-August 2011. PMN parties say, the brand has not been decided. Tablets will be equipped with Philly.com app. Digital versions of both newspapers was worth 2.99 U.S. dollars per week.
Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News plans to sell at a discount Android tabletsincluded by newspaper content
This is probably the most courageous steps taken by newspaper publishers in doing "tabletisasi".
When iPad version of The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The New York Times appeared last year, many newspapers are slow to follow this trend.
A survey by Prosper Mobile Insights in July 2011 suggests, as much as 28.2 percent of respondents were ready to replace their newspapers with a smart phone or tablet.
