LA Times on digital editions

Pulitzer winner and media critic David Shaw says that NewsStand and PressDisplay's digital edition products are "a big step in the right direction" to allay his misgivings ("I miss ... the tactile sensation ... the serendipity ... [and] the context") about accessing his paper online when he can't get a print edition. It's not the best-researched piece of journalism ever -- e.g. it fails to mention the existence of other digital edition services; it inaccurately reports that PressDisplay started on December 15 (even I was aware of it by November 20) -- but it does have some useful facts and figures -- e.g. that the New York Times has 4,000 NewsStand subscribers (a figure I'm not entirely sure they wanted publicised) -- and some good descriptions of the two products' subscription models.
(From Romenesko)