A Victorian newsagent has had a customer cancel their Herald Sun home delivery citing that they now get the newspaper delivered on their iPad.
This is the first report I have heard of this happening.
Such an occurrence should not be a surprise. It has been inevitable since the Herald Sun iPad app was released. The question for each newsagent is what you doing in your businesses to respond to the disruption of new distribution channels for content which was formerly only distributed via print?
I firmly believe that these are days of opportunity, when we can redefine what we stand for and set for ourselves an adjusted direction.
The challenge is dealing with some suppliers who need us to be the newsagents of old for another three years or so.
Run for the hills people. The end is nigh!
don’t know but my paper sales were up 55.15% for yesterday mainly because of the cyclone but they could get all that info off the net or were ever as well but they are choosing the paper instead .
nothing like a bit of paper for the history book or maybe you could save it to a usb stick and show the grand kids in 20 years time
Former, not at all. The ship will just carry different cargo.
up 71% today sold out at 2pm people still love print media ,yeah it will die but gees it is going to be missed
but what if every one had electonic devises and the newsletter had died out what about the poor people that cant effored a ipod or things like that and what if the devises malfuntion froze or the app doesn work….