Javier V. Rufino, our Production Director, describes publishing on the web in a few easy steps, but warns that intellectual property rights are not guaranteed as much as freedom of speech on the Web is. One of them is our attachment to the aesthetics and feel of a book. Scrolling through text, or even downloading pages of text for printing, are not the same as leafing through bound pages. There are some who still love the feel of and smell of ink on paper. The other reason is more fundamental.
Accessibility is still our main concern.
In the United States, studies show that the profile of the average Internet user is male, white, and upper-middle class. There is no reason to doubt that accessibility to the Internet in the Philippines is even more highly skewed in favor of a select few. Take this, if you may, as an apologia for our continued existence in print. Show us something that lasts as long, and we just might change our mind.