Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here in Chennai, newspapers are alive and kicking. We get four national english dailies, three national english business dailies, and four tamil (local language) dailies, all published here. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Here in Spain, there are a number of national daily papers, the best known > being El Pa?s, which seem to be surviving OK. In Alicante we have a local > paper too, Informaci?n. So far so good. The economics are the same as > everywhere else, but perhaps a bit less strong here. The papers are indeed > impacted by the move of advertising to the Internet, and also by the free > newspapers (Metro, 20 Minutes) that are popular with commuters. > > As for paying for internet newspapers, I'm not sure. It appears that the > only content large numbers of people are prepared to pay for is porn, but > perhaps that is changing. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On May 11, 2009, at 5:03 AM, leo wesson wrote: > >> http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/05/08/02 >> >> interesting radio article on the kindle and newspapers and the struggle >> for >> newspapers ?to survive in the internet world. ?the newspapers here are >> tanking, most of my friends that work for newspapers no longer have jobs. >> >> I was wondering how the rest of the world deals with this? ?are your >> newspapers going out of business? ?Does anyone buy a paper anymore? ?does >> anyone pay for internet newspapers? ?there has to be an income stream to >> produce news but no one wants to pay for the news... >> >> Leo Wesson >> Photographer/Videographer >> 817.733.9157 >> www.leowesson.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >