Coming soon: New newspaper size and shape

Ready for a radical redesign of your daily print newspaper? A new press system that would produce a compact, sectioned print edition has been on the market for nearly three years now.

So far, there have been no takers (and that’s a story in itself). But industry sources say that the considerable potential savings and punishing newsprint price increases will lead to the adoption of so-called “three-arounds” in at least a few places by the end of the year.

Jim Gore and Mark Huck of Pressline Services believe they have developed the pressroom equivalent of a better mousetrap and expressed plenty of frustration that the many nibbles from top companies had not resulted in a sale.

“We have a lot of people who say they want to go second,” Gore said, “but no one wants to be first.”

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