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This December, the Internet virtual community Second Life will have its very own tabloid. The site created in 2003 is an online world where people can make characters called avatars that live, play, and buy things within Second Life’s Internet borders. Now, Axel Springer, the publisher of Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper, plans on creating a weekly gossip tabloid about avatars for site users.
The German publisher is working on setting up a “real” virtual office in Second Life with an actual editor-in-chief and reporters wandering across the site to report on the over one million residents. "It will be a colorful tabloid, with snippets about show business and human interest tales from the avatar world," explained Dirk Meyer-Bosse, a spokesman for Axel Springer(Second life linden).
The magazine will be written in English and each issue will cost between ten and fifteen linden dollars, virtual money that can be exchanged to actual money. Axel Springer plans to sell the tabloid through subscriptions being delivered to virtual mailboxes across the world.
Though this is the first tabloid *by a traditional publisher*, Second Life is no stranger to Journalists. There is currently one freelance journalist wandering about named Wagner James Au and in October Reuters online news agency sent a reporter into the Second Life universe to report on business events within the site(Secondlife linden).
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