The Economist thinks the issue is strong enough to make it a leader: The emergence of the e-reader and its possible benefit for the newspaper.
The magazine chronicles the development of the second version of the Kindle and the other devices new and pending, and it weighs into the should-news-be-free debate by suggesting that what's needed is a storefront like Amazon to retail the newspaper to the e-reading set.
Indeed, it presents an intriguing notion: Might Apple enter the fray? It notes how Steve Jobs believes that "reading is dead," but how he's dismissed other things in the past similarly just before leaping in.
