The New York Times has a
story about the new tabloid (which Times of London editor Robert Thomson prefers to call "compact") editions of mainstream British broadsheets. This innovation hasn't gotten all that much attention in this country, but publishers have to look at the effect it has had on circulation in Britain. <p>
The Independent's new tabloid, which requires several staff members to reconfigure and lightly re-edit the broadsheet's articles, cost more than $10 million last fall in production, staff and marketing costs. <p>***I would guess that sentence understates the work involved in converting from broadsheet to tabloid. It would be a familiar nightmare to copy editors here who must reconfigure local stories for "zones," I suspect. It would be interesting to hear from our British colleagues about the experience.***