Apple tablet | Papers live-blogging today's launch

[CEO Steve Jobs holds device in this New York Times photo]

I'm not at this morning's San Francisco debut for Apple's tablet, the much-hyped multimedia device that's expected to help newspaper publishers grab new paying readers. But the three national dailies are reporting details on what we now know has been dubbed the iPad, as the event continues unfolding; it started at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT:

• USA Today's Technology Live
• The Wall Street Journal's Digits
• The New York Times' Bits

Here's the WSJ's first video of the event, via Fox News:



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