Time: London’s Newspaper Club Start-Up: DIY Print Publishing
Saturday, 24 April 2010, 22:04
"Here's how [Newspaper Club] works: Gather the words, pictures and graphics you want to see in print. Then design your 12-page (minimum) tabloid-size paper — either by using Newspaper Club's on-site layout tool and your own software and sending the result to the site as a PDF, or by letting the site's in-house designers do the job for you. Newspaper Club then arranges for a printer to handle your press run and ships the finished work to your door."
BBC News: New lease of life for newspapers
Saturday, 31 October 2009, 13:23
"The Newspaperclub team, all of whom have backgrounds working online, are creating a website that will allow people to design and print small runs of newspapers. … Recently the Cabinet Office asked them to produce an experimental paper covering just one postcode."
Press Gazette: New project finds digital future for news – on paper
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 15:40
Another interesting personalised print-on-demand news project: "A group of German entrepreneurs have come up with a new digital solution for the future of news – but it is on paper rather than online. They are using the latest short-run digital printer developed by Oce to produce a personalized newspaper printed overnight and delivered to readers on a daily basis."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper”
Monday, 9 March 2009, 14:23
"Fax editions were tried again in the 1980s as a way to deliver news to offices as fax machines proliferated; these trials included some customized editions. The advent of the Web spiked that system, we thought for good. Why on earth would MediaNews want to try this all over again?"
MediaShift: Your Guide to Alternative Business Models for Newspapers
Saturday, 20 December 2008, 13:20
Alternative business models for newspapers, including: blog networks, classified networks, crowdfunding, customised papers, hyperlocal ads, local portals, niche sites, multimedia ads, non-profit news orgs and yes, paid content.
