[email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 2/28/2009 10:12:43 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
I still insist on subscribing to the print edition of our local
newspaper. But although everyone *says* they prefer print, there aren't
enough of us who back up these statements with action.
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I think newspapers and books are two quite different things (you didn't
reply to what I said).
Newspapers are the canary in the coal mine. If people are willing to
abandon newspapers for the crappy monitor technology we have now,
imagine what will happen when there are electronic viewing media that
are close to the legibility of a printed page. That's just a few years away.
I suspect newspapers will end up mainly online. If the advertising revenue
will support it.
Not all print media is equivalent to all other print media.
In fact, I expect advertising revenue will support books eventually,
when they're in electronic form. I think that stinks, but it's very
likely to happen in order to subsidize the cost of the technology. I
hope it's a short-lived phenomenon.
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