From my viewpoint, it looks like more of a loss of advertising revenue.
The Oregonian is cutting back to something like delivery only four
days a week along with an online thing full time. Their advertising has
really fallen off in the last few years. I am not real happy about
losing the daily paper.
Paul in Portland OR
On 8/3/2013 9:27 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> It will go away only if people stop buying it. I think the top-of-the-line
> national papers like NYT and Wall Street Journal are safe, perhaps also
> Washington Post. For the rest, they need to explore new business models and
> new ways of doing things. Sometimes I think the papers are their own worst
> enemy, though. An example: I want to keep up with what is happening in
> Denmark, and I do so mostly by watching the evening news from Danish TV
> online every day. But of course I also miss the deeper analysis that a
> quality newspaper can provide, and so I checked on prices of electronic
> subscriptions to a couple of the leading papers. In all cases, the price was
> based on sending a paper edition to me in Spain. No special price for
> electronic delivery. Sorry, but that's just 19th century thinking and if they
> continue to think that way, they are doomed.
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