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Topic subjectRE: how do digital pub times affect print pub times
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12732599, RE: how do digital pub times affect print pub times
Posted by fontgangsta, Fri Feb-20-15 01:31 PM
i mean, ever since the web came about, magazines aren't the source for "breaking news" - so that horse left the barn a long time ago.
weeklies can still keep a hold of exclusive content here and there though.
at BB we will often have exclusive stories that we're breaking in print, and if we know we've definitely got the exclusive on them, our website will wait for us to publish first. (we recently broke the story about trey from phish joining the final grateful dead tour this way, for ex)
but if a story gets "out there", then ya, web has to go ahead and move on it and it is what it is.

as for pub times (and this may not be what you were asking but), basically tablet editions just have to be cranked out as quickly as possible once the print edition is compete or near-complete so they can hit the app store right when print hits the newsstand