Author: Glenn Nelson

Based in Seattle, Wash., within three hours of three national parks, Glenn Nelson is the founder and publisher of The Trail Posse, which documents and encourages diversity and inclusion in the outdoors. He has won several national awards for his writing, photography and Web publishing. A graduate of Seattle University and Columbia University, he was born in Japan and started his career at The Seattle Times. He later founded HoopGurlz.com (now at ESPN), which covered girl’s basketball and college prospects nationally, and helped found Scout.com, a network of college and pro sports websites. Nelson is the primary author of a teen book about the NBA, has been published in numerous magazines and book collections, had a photo in a Smithsonian exhibit, and has been profiled by NPR.

The Kindle 2 Won’t Save Newspapers

On By Glenn NelsonIn Media Business5 Comments

Overall the newspaper experience on the Kindle is, well, sterile. The device is white and the e-ink screen is black on white. A lot of guys will recognize a parallel: Ever see a pile of stories on the floor in a bathroom stall that someone printed from a news Web site and brought to the throne with him? That’s kind of what it’s like to read a newspaper on the Kindle. It’s even close to being that random. First off, there’s no facsimile, even if non-functional, of section fronts, only an index of sections. Secondly, there is no table of contents listing out the day’s offerings. You kind of jump in blind, the “home page” being what someone deemed as the day’s top story. You either can navigate story to story, or jump to another section, where you again have to navigate story by story.