For those of you that view the site over in North America, the UK, Germany etc and miss the full contents of the hard-copy version, we would like to hear from you.
We would like to know if you would like to see a particular section that is available in the hard copy but not reproduced here.
To make you view known, all you have to do is add a comment below.
I have the feeling that in former times there was more to read in the online edition, I mean, that the news text have been longer including interviews (may be that I feel wrong, but naturally actual I can’t compare it with the hard copy). I preferred the continous text blocks like Almuñécar, Salobreña etc. with including fotos instead of singular (stand alone) news and notices within their respective blocks.
To get the published letters to the editor seems to me to be helpful, to be able to learn about problems and/or solutions of other readers.
The truth is, that I would like it very much to be able to get a hard copy by mail, naturally paying for it. But I also undestand, that this would mean a lot of additional work for the Seaside Gazette team.
Kind regards
Peter Hollbach, Griesheim (Germany)
Thank you, Peter, for responding.
There is, in fact, more information on this new website than the old one. For example, we are now posting the medical & legal columns that appear in the hard-copy edition, where as before it was just the local news sections.
My open question posted above was to see if readers missed the World, Spain, or Andalucía sections, or, the Spanish Headlines one?
Posting hard copies is a complicated issue because of the changing postal costs: if our page number increases, then we suddenly find that the added weight knocks us into a higher postal rate, or vice versa.
And as you said, it’s the time factor.
By providing this online edition we wanted to be in immediate contact with all of our readers. If somebody wants to discuss a particular article, then it can be done, forum style, by leaving a comment under the article in question. This is something, for example, that couldn’t be done on the old website.
Finally, there are interviews on this site, which you will find under Almuñécar button at the top. We only have one interview posted here to date, but that is because we have only published the one in the hard copy, as well.
Thanks, again, Peter, and I hope that your journey back to Germany was uneventful
Cheers
Martin, the Ed.