You wouldn't draft a letter or sketch a still life with an ink-stained finger, but that's what writing or drawing on a tablet amounts to without the proper tool.
The Scotsman stable of titles is drawing people into its tablet format, and Ashley Highfield claims there are signs that the declines are levelling out.
As The Economist went to press, a testy court battle in America between the firm and Samsung over various patents connected with smartphones and tablet computers was drawing to a close.