Tuesday, October 05, 2010

You pick the stories and ads and newspaper is delivered to your door


With newspapers rushing for the exit to get out of or greatly decrease their print editions, along comes a "newspaper" that takes online stories about subjects that a subscriber says interests him or her and then prints them into a customized newspaper that is hand-delivered to the subscriber’s doorstep.

Launched in Berlin in 2009, the personalized newspaper is based in Berlin, Germany. Niiu's website is niiu.de.

Niiu is printed overnight and delivered to the subscriber's door the next morning, just like any other newspaper.

Niiu is the brainchild of two Germans, 27-year-old Hendrik Tiedemann and 23-year-old Wanja Oberhof.

Niiu is published from Monday to Sunday. It prints 24 pages -- 2 pages of online content, 20 newspaper pages, 2 full advertisement pages that are individually composed by the customer. It collects and prints the newspaper from 18 international, national and local newspapers and more than 600 online sources.

The price for an issue is 1.80 Euros ($2.50 US), but the reader can choose niiu only on specific days.

Click on the headline for story of this customized newspaper that was published before the year-old launch.

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