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  • Tim H. 4 months ago

    Do you mean the days of elbowing the person sitting next to me on public transportation as I flip the page are gone?!

    There’s no doubt we are moving to a paperless age as everything goes digital. But what will fill the niche of the newspaper? Will all readable news be on the web? Will it be free or will subscription service survive? Will electronic readers such as Amazon’s Kindle provide a replacement to paper – especially when there’s no connection to the web (e.g. public transportation in Boston)? Technology has been trying to replace paper for some time, but there are still plenty of people that prefer to read from paper versus a computer screen or electronic reader.

    Is there an iNewspaper in the future?

    • me3tv 4 months ago

      It hit me when I taught a mass media class at the local community college. Only 5% of the class even read a newspaper and those people were adult students over 35 years of age. (Most did not watch TV either). Local newspapers might cheat death for awhile by changing their format- ad model web connectivity AND distribution models. But still - it looks like slow death.

      • WStripWatcher 4 months ago

        Theres nothing better then doing your “business” and turning through the newspaper… I’m gonna miss it :(

        • Geoff Mendelson 4 months ago

          This is the best Wallstrip in a long time, it had something to say that no one else does and it was presented well. Glad to see you back. Keep up the good work.

          Comments to the other guys, the Kindle is not designed to READ ebooks, it’s designed to SELL ebooks. Amazon feels there is a big market selling ebooks to bored people sitting in Starbucks, etc. If you can afford a $7 coffee and a Kindle, you can afford to buy an ebook, read it while you are there while showing off your neat gadget to all the other lonely nerds and forget about it when you turn off the Kindle and walk out the door.

          However, IMHO until someone can duplicate the ergonomics, transportability and power consumption of a book/newspaper they will decline, but not go anywhere.

          I have a lot of ebooks I’ve collected over the years, but I never read them. I use them for reference, but sitting at a computer screen reading a book for hours does not “do it” for me.

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