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Subject: [Leica] kindle and newspapers
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:45 -0400
References: <3e7573d40905102003i3699a39ew8d75962597b43a68@mail.gmail.com> <221C8329-ED40-41F7-A9FF-8C8C6E14DD9E@frozenlight.eu> <3cad89990905102220y24684057je64eaf2bbfd5ee32@mail.gmail.com> <132ed09d0905111133y42495fcr95e13b7cf022afa1@mail.gmail.com>

The News & Observer here (state paper of record) was making it okay  
until McLatchy bought it. Since then, they have been bleeding it to  
death to prop up their loser papers elsewhere. Sunday comics are now  
shrunk to little bigger than dailies--one page of editorials on  
Mondays-- inserts are now twice as thick as the paper itself on  
Sunday--staff layoffs extensive.

The little Washington Daily News I worked for for years has dropped  
the Monday edition. It never had a payroll to speak of, so not much to  
cut there

Ric




On May 11, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Bill Nelsch wrote:

> 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
>>>>
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