Chapter 4—Pulped Wood versus Electrons:

Can the Print World Learn to Love the Net?

Footnote 4.1:

A.C.’s work is on the Net, but in the strictest sense he himself isn’t. His daughter at a paper in Florida can enjoy his columns online but can’t even swap e-mail with him. Perhaps she’ll eventually conquer his technophobia. A.C., I’m rooting for you.

Footnote 4.2:

Frank Daniels III, “One newspaper’s journey on the Internet,” _T Leaves: A Newsletter for NAA Members_, October 1994. NAA is the Newspaper Association of America.

Footnote 4.3:

David Streitfeld, “Book report,” _Washington Post_, September 25, 1994, page 19 of Book World section.

Footnote 4.4:

Lewis and many other journalists here do not necessarily serve as official spokespeople for their publications.

Footnote 4.5:

Teresea Martin, “Like a newspaper, but better: Tablets will succeed where others have failed,” _Digital Media: A Seybold Report_, September 13, 1994.

Footnote 4.6:

Jonathan Seybold, “How the rise of electronic media is affecting paper prices,” _Digital Media Perspective_, March 27, 1995.

Footnote 4.7:

To Baker’s credit, he seems to have learned about the new media since writing the article. Commendably he came out for an online royalty-collection approach that would be less onerous to readers than the approach favored by the Clinton Administration.

Footnote 4.8:

As usual, for aesthetic reasons, I’m using italics to show emphasis in place of the original capitalization.

Footnote 4.9:

Not to be confused with the former speech writer for Ronald Reagan.

Footnote 4.10:

I’m not beating up on the late professor, one of the best teachers I ever had. In his place, I’d have given the same advice. The limitations of 1960s technology made it difficult to think otherwise.

Footnote 4.11:

E-mail from Bruce Siceloff.

Footnote 4.12:

Katherine Fulton, “Heirs to newspaper make unlikely pioneers. So why is Frank Daniels III out on the frontier?”, _Poynter Special Report: Converging Technologies_, 1994, pages 5-7.

Footnote 4.13:

Ibid.

Footnote 4.14:

Daniels, in _T Leaves_.

Footnote 4.15:

The speculation about _Time_’s role in the cable trade is my own. Jim Kinsella, one of the organizers of Pathfinder, told me that he liked this approach but was not necessarily speaking for the company.

Footnote 4.16:

In Raleigh, a locally oriented arm of Time Warner might enjoy a big advantage over the _N & O_ someday if the newspaper lacked access to cable for Internet purposes. Cable will probably be much better than phone connections, the kind the _N & O_ uses. The best cure, of course, would be laws that (1) assured the _N & O_ a place on local cable and (2) also let the phone companies there go into the cable business. Then the _N & O_ could choose between Time Warner and its phone company allies of the present. Perhaps such laws will be on the books by the time you’re reading this. Meanwhile, I’ll hardly blame the people at Time Warner for unofficially talking up cable for the Internet; as noted before, I’d do the same, given the technical benefits.

Footnote 4.17:

Conspiracy theorists may take note that another arm of the Newhouse interests, Ballantine Books, is distributing _NetWorld!_ for Prima Publishing.

Footnote 4.18:

Laurie Flynn, “Getting on-line—the Microsoft way,” _New York Times_, November 20, 1994, page F10.

Footnote 4.19:

The Stahlman and Smith quotes are from “Time Inc. raises its multimedia profile with an Internet test,” by Deirdre Carmody, _New York Times_, October 24, 1994, page D10.

Footnote 4.20:

Laura Fillmore, “Online publishing: Threat or menace,” speech to the Online Publishing Conference, Graphic Communications Association, March 1993.

Footnote 4.21:

Ibid.

Footnote 4.22:

Ibid.

Footnote 4.23:

Fillmore, “Slaves of a new machine: Exploring the for-free/for-pay conundrum,” Fifth Conference on Organizational Computing, Coordination, and Collaboration: “Making Money on the Internet,” Austin, Texas, May 10, 1994.

Footnote 4.24:

Ibid.

Footnote 4.25:

Vannevar Bush, “As we may think,” _The Atlantic Monthly_, July 1945.

Footnote 4.26:

Interview with Fillmore.

Footnote 4.27:

Fillmore, “Slaves.”

Footnote 4.28:

Ibid.

Footnote 4.29:

Ibid.

Footnote 4.30:

Ibid.

Footnote 4.31:

Rory J. O’Connor, “News firms plan on-line network,” _San Jose Mercury News_, April 20,1995, page 1F.

Footnote 4.32:

Reuter Information Service, “Newspaper executives see online services as prime competitor,” carried by _The NandO Times_, June 9, 1995.

Footnote 4.33:

David Streitfeld, “Cyberstrokes: For authors, e-mail offers some novel reader feedback,” _Washington Post_, June 9,1995, page B1.