Friday 27 September 2013

Ships through Chips


All the ports of the UK, including those of the Scottish islands, have, at some time featured in Lloyd's List, the oldest business paper in the world. It has been published every working day since 1734, but from 20 December next will become solely a digital, online production. News of the movements of ships will be carried by electronic chips and not on paper. Is this the future of many publications?

Scottish Islands Explorer - tablet apps through Apple, Google and Kindle

2 comments:

David & Margaret Gartside said...

From Spain - long live the paper edition of SIE. It would just not be the same in digital.

Scottish Islands Explorer said...

There are no negative changes in sight, but tomorrow's item on this blog includes a new digital feature that may give pleasure to some.