Old rituals wither and die; new rituals crop up and replace the old. Once upon a time, one of my favorite rituals was to stop every morning at a newsstand and load up on reading materials–three or four newspapers and often one or two magazines. The year was 1994.
I kept up the habit for about 18 months. Although I still read a ton of magazines, I almost never touch newsprint. But my daily ritual trip to the newsstand has been replaced by a routine check of my RSS feeds.
Now I can visit the newsstand and check my feeds, thanks to a clever app for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Newsstand.
Read the rest of this Macworld article here. Devices like th iPhone are incredibly disruptive to the print model. Newsagents need to take note and reflect this in their business from the shop fit out.