Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being the paper version of a publication that is also published electronically.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
dead tree .
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Examples
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Writing in the dead-tree edition, Kilgore used phrases like "incredibly violent" and "vicious hacks," phrases normally reserved for the Nats Park press corps.
Video of Bryce Harper's Ground-Rule Double Dan Steinberg 2010
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Really hoping the dead-tree mostly-scumsucking-media falls over dead soon …
Unemployment still at 10%. [pause] Yipe. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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And I realize e-readers have some advantages over dead-tree, attached to-each-other pages.
Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin Dave Astor 2011
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Android/iPhone/Kindle+3G/3. 5G+ newspapers declining in dead-tree format.
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And I realize e-readers have some advantages over dead-tree, attached to-each-other pages.
Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin Dave Astor 2011
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And I realize e-readers have some advantages over dead-tree, attached to-each-other pages.
Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin Dave Astor 2011
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My dead-tree collections of DC Archives, Complete Histories, and Encyclopediae have been invaluable; and of course, I had the Vast Bondurant Comics Library (when I felt like looking at it).
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This year all five nominees are available, though I'd already bought hard copies of the three that have been published in dead-tree format, and I am still putting Schlock Mercenary last.
June Books 14) The God Engines, by John Scalzi nwhyte 2010
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And I realize e-readers have some advantages over dead-tree, attached to-each-other pages.
Dave Astor: Confessions of an E-Book Virgin Dave Astor 2011
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Repeatedly, I've seen advocates of internet publishing using the derogatory phrase "dead-tree magazines."
Street Signs greygirlbeast 2009
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