Comments on: Newspapers Need Less Paper, More Kindle to Survive, Says Madrona’s Tom Alberg

By: VC in Portland; Upset Clearwire customers; Motricity; and more « Erik Bowman’s Blog

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:11:19 +0000

[...] Venture Group’s Tom Alberg tells Xconomy that print newspapers should eliminate daily delivery and possibly work with Amazon.com to deliver [...]

By: The Daily Preface (4/28/2009) - The “You can’t hold a Kindle to my book” Edition | NeoLibrarium

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:22:03 +0000

[...] Venture capitalist Tom Alberg of Seattle reads the tea leaves differently. Instead of thinking that a Kindle will kill reading, he believes that Kindle could save the newspaper industry. [...]

By: Wade Roush

Wade Roush — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:01:33 +0000

Anne, I don’t think Alberg is implying that newspapers should deal exclusively with Amazon. And I certainly wouldn’t say that Luke or any of us here at Xconomy are Kindle partisans.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:55:31 +0000

Reads to me like an ad for that fragile electronic device, the kindle. For those that like it dandy but the effort of Timmerman to push his favorite device is what worries me about kindle. Content solely available on kindle. Not online and not on paper just on this brand of electronic device.