OC Register going tab??

[Tom Petty]

freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Contrary to popular belief, it is harder to hold a tabloid because the number of pages confined to one space requires you to pinch harder with your thumbs and pointer fingers, thus causing mild discomfort.

Those are my thoughts.

It's also harder to navigate, to find the sections you want. National advertisers aren't especially happy with either having their full-page ads shot down (leaving a one-column hole down the side) or having the ad run full size, sideways, over two pages. Besides, they think tabs are scuzzy. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner and San Diego Tribune each considered going tab in the late 1980s, early 1990s. It's not a tabloid market, no one takes mass transit. There is no advantage to this besides trimming newsprint costs a bit.

The National didn't do well out there either and it was a tab.

You're comparing apples and aardvarks. The National's problems, and Lord knows it had problems, had nothing to do with format.