Writer Dave Eggers’ publishing house, McSweeney’s, recently released a one-off newspaper called Panorama. The 328-page paper was meant as a celebration of the print form and a demonstration of why newspapers are still uniquely relevant in the digital era. Brooke interviewed Dave live onstage in Washington DC, and asked him about the future of print.
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Transcript here.
Conspicuous Consumption
What a shocking project! Paper newspapers are an extreme waste of resources, and are a real pain even for the final consumer to haul around and recycle. They cannot be searched or browsed with the ease that a web site can, nor can they be streamed to any portable device. This is simply an exercise in conspicuous consumption, publishing and reading a newspaper being a demonstration that one has excess money and time to produce and consume a useless artifact.