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Writer Dave Eggers’ long-awaited newspaper—The San Francisco Panorama—was published today in San Francisco.

Eggers tells the Guardian: “Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. We’re resurrecting practices from 100 years ago – like printing full-page comics. We want to give young people ways to engage with it, feel ownership of it.”

Oscar Villalon, Eggers’ publisher, elucidates: “What we’re doing is an example of a Sunday newspaper. But the larger question is one the newspaper industry has to ask themselves: Is it worth coming out every single day? Do you keep an online presence for the daily and then you put out a newspaper once a week, twice a week, three times a week, depending on advertising support and depending on what staffing can support? And newspapers have to think about: How do we optimize what we have and put out a product that people will say, yeah, I’ll pay a dollar for that, or yeah, I’ll pay five dollars for that? There are cool things you can do there that you can’t do on the Internet because of the medium, like posters, giant comics, really cool huge double-truck graphics that you can pore over at your leisure—things that newspapers still have the resources to do.”

Los Angeles Times reports here.

Update: Panorama gets rave review here.