Web Widths

If they make it narrow enough, we can all go home.

 

On the bright side, if it gets narrower, maybe people can start reading it with one hand while they drive. It beats what they might be doing when they're one-hand driving (using their cell phones, you fucking perverts)

 

Honestly, as a reader, I like the narrower papers.

I find the Globe easier to read than say, the NYT as it is right now.

Yes, you hate to lose news hole.

 

Stupid Questions Dept.: How does this save money? Is a narrower roll purchased? If that's the case, is the paper printed untrimmed? I'm just trying to envision a way to keep the old standard (NYT) width with a narrower roll.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal slims all the way to the new standard later this year or early next year. That's going to be a shocker for those readers. They'll lose a whole column of width. It doesn't matter how many pages are added. People will think they're getting shorted. And they may be right.

 

They'll be so focused on the design, they won't be able to put it down. [/dr.mario]