Did NYT Make A Mistake By Pairing With Apple On iPad App?

Web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has a message to send to New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (and any other newspaper publisher who sells content through Apple’s App Store): you’re making a huge mistake.

Over the weekend, Calacanis sounded off on the Times iPad app and the future of journalism on his vid-cast This Week in Startups, sending a message to Sulzberger himself:

“If you are a publisher of a newspaper, magazine, or book, and you sell your products through the App Store, you are a fool…As a newspaper… your business is predicated having a relationship with the reader.

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