Digital newspaper as E-Paper (6.32)

7/2005

Hans-Jürgen Bucher, Steffen Büffel, Jörg Wollscheid

The present study was compiled during the period from November 2002 to July 2003 at the Competence Center Electronic Business (CEB) of Trier university by the faculty of media science. Realisation of the research project was made possible by the generous support of two external partners: the Ministry for Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viniculture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate provided financial backing within the framework of the rlp-inform multimedia initiative, and the newspaper Rhein- Zeitung in Koblenz acted both as an always receptive cooperation partner and, by making available the log files, providing support for the online survey and recruiting the test persons, made a decisive contribution to data gathering. Accordingly, we wish to express our gratitude both to the Ministry of Economics and the Rhein-Zeitung for the successful cooperation. Our thanks go also to all those who made a major contribution to the realisation of the project: Stefan Kinscher assumed responsibility for the electronic evaluation and preparation of the log file data. Jörg Holdenried, Linda Beitz, Stefan Beyer, Benedikt Bambach, Jörg Hunold, Katja Römer and Hauke Thinius supported us in the gathering and evaluation of the data. Special thanks to Christof Barth for his constructive tips and impulses during the entire project. And last but not least our discussions with Joachim Türk and Heike ter Horst of the Rhein-Zeitung sharpened our awareness for the practical, technical and economic aspects of E-Paper. The E-Paper offering of the Rhein-Zeitung examined within the framework of this study can be accessed under http://www.epaper.de. Additional illustrations from the study can be found on the web under: http://www.medienwissenschaft.de/forschung/epaper/.