Thursday, October 05, 2006

Omaha World-Herald Launches 'E-Edition'

Screenshot, courtesy of Omaha World-Herald E-Edition
The Omaha World-Herald's new "E-Edition" promises "all of the quality content" of the print edition in an online format.

E-Edition gif, courtesy of Omaha.comThe Omaha World-Herald E-Edition is available only to paid seven-day subscribers of the newspaper. It allows a user to view pages of the newspaper delivered digitally. A subscriber who has not created an online account must do so first before being able to view the newspaper online.

Using Tecnavia's "NewsMemory" publishing system, a special browser window allows a user to scan through page images and skim headlines as if the actual newspaper was on hand.

Four editions of the World-Herald are available - Nebraska, Iowa and metropolitan morning and afternoon. Each offers printable or e-mailable pages.

Omaha World-Herald screenshot

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

These guys just don't get it, do they?

Why would you want to view little tiny pages of the paper (on a laptop) when you are out of town? First, I'd rather read the newspaper of the city where I'm staying. And if I want to read the articles (without the ads), I'll keep surfing omaha.com.

Andrew Wees said...

It's not tiny if you click on the picture to view it larger.

Anonymous said...

How 90's of the OWH. That'll be fun to read articles by having to scroll from the first page to page 16 to read the rest.

About the only reason to use this is that they might post the new edition sooner than the updated stories. Typically a lot of the stories from the morning edition don't appear on the web site until almost lunchtime.

Richard said...

They do this for SUBSCRIBERS ahhhh aside from the few that are out of town, why would I need it if I can open up my fish wrap?