[Leica] kindle and newspapers

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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

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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
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