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Analog In A Digital World
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The Los Angeles Register has folded, and... that was quick. Five months. The paper, an expansion of the Orange County Register, was a much-ballyhooed gamble on print at a time when, um, nobody's buying print anymore. And the paper was pretty thin on the local news, and I noticed nobody buying it at the 7-Eleven here. Weirdest: I live in L.A. County and other than radio commercials, there was no effort to solicit subscriptions here at all. Worse, the actual paper, in an e-edition, was available in its entirety for free on the website; you didn't need to pay $1.50 (!) for it, ever. What's interesting is that the L.A. Times has been struggling for years, and the L.A. Daily News and its local affiliates are wobbling as part of the teetering Digital First chain. Is there going to be anyone left? (Los Angeles Times)
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