Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Up until a couple of months ago Denver, CO was a two paper town. Then the Rocky folded and while the Post allegedly picked up most the customers, it just isn't the same. The absence of competition has taken the spirit out of the newspaper business - at least that is my impression. I used to subscribe to and read both papers but now that there is only one, I can go without reading it every day. Comics.com and gocomics.com fill the need. Bill in Denver. On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >