Well I’m almost 71 and I get my news and commentary over the net.
My wife insists on subscribing to “The Age” and I usually glance at that each morning but time and time again, I’ll complain that that is old news because I read it on th enet 24-48 hours earlier.
And I don’t use the net to save money. Admittedly reading the Australian and overseas papers costs me noting but I do subscribe to services such as the Kohler report and Crikey. My cashbook shows that I expend over $700 pa on Internet news and commentary.
I find that it is more immediate and generally of a higher quality than print.
Its a very interesting post – and some very intersting comments that went with it.
I get nearly all my news from the net. I do occasionaly read The Australian in print form – but only if i notice a frontpage story that grabs my attention.
Contrary to the beliefs expressed in some comments on Steve’s post, print is definatly dying in some form. Newspapers will most likely be the first to go – we know that genY barely know what a newspaper is. Magazines are sometime after that. But i don’t believe that that books are dying – they are a different beast altogether.
As print dies ther will undoubtably be people out there who still want to read their printed newspaper – unfortunatly the viabiity of producing, distributing and retailing such a product won’t be viable.
As part of genY i see news as something that should be free of cost. Agree of disagree with me, this is the future of news – just ask Rupert Murdoch.
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While print is in trouble in terms of the model to date, I don’t see it as dying Disrupted and facing radical change? Yes. There is too much investment by major players to call its death yet. Maybe in 5 years we’ll have a better perspective.
In the meantime, we newsagents need to rely less and less on print because we will feel the impact of disruption ahead of our suppliers.
Well I’m almost 71 and I get my news and commentary over the net.
My wife insists on subscribing to “The Age” and I usually glance at that each morning but time and time again, I’ll complain that that is old news because I read it on th enet 24-48 hours earlier.
And I don’t use the net to save money. Admittedly reading the Australian and overseas papers costs me noting but I do subscribe to services such as the Kohler report and Crikey. My cashbook shows that I expend over $700 pa on Internet news and commentary.
I find that it is more immediate and generally of a higher quality than print.
Its a very interesting post – and some very intersting comments that went with it.
I get nearly all my news from the net. I do occasionaly read The Australian in print form – but only if i notice a frontpage story that grabs my attention.
Contrary to the beliefs expressed in some comments on Steve’s post, print is definatly dying in some form. Newspapers will most likely be the first to go – we know that genY barely know what a newspaper is. Magazines are sometime after that. But i don’t believe that that books are dying – they are a different beast altogether.
As print dies ther will undoubtably be people out there who still want to read their printed newspaper – unfortunatly the viabiity of producing, distributing and retailing such a product won’t be viable.
As part of genY i see news as something that should be free of cost. Agree of disagree with me, this is the future of news – just ask Rupert Murdoch.
While print is in trouble in terms of the model to date, I don’t see it as dying Disrupted and facing radical change? Yes. There is too much investment by major players to call its death yet. Maybe in 5 years we’ll have a better perspective.
In the meantime, we newsagents need to rely less and less on print because we will feel the impact of disruption ahead of our suppliers.