There’s a new discount offer for the Star-Advertiser making the rounds–$12 for a year of full digital access plus the print edition delivered on weekends (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday).

That’s 76% off the “regular” $50 digital subscription for Hawaii readers. What a deal!

Meanwhile, I’ve been getting an error message fairly regularly in the past few days when trying to check the Star-Advertiser in the early morning on the web.

Often I can open the main page. I’m asked to log in to read any stories. Then I get this error message, which tends to persist for several minutes. Perhaps this is just one of their busy times of day. I only note it because it has become a more familiar message than previously.

On the other hand, the delivery of the full digital edition to my iPhone or iPad via the Star-Advertiser’s own app works very well, although it lacks the “breaking news” provided by the web edition. It’s easy to navigate through and seems to work smoothly.

And the sale of the San Francisco Examiner to a group headed by Star-Advertiser owner David Black is due to close by tomorrow, according to published reports. The Examiner was converted to a free newspaper after its sale by the Hearst Corporation in 2000, and now claims to have the highest circulation of any newspaper in San Francisco and San Mateo county.