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Another Victory For Trees
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It was quietly announced at the end of last week that The Independent, one of England's "quality" compact (as opposed to tabloid) newspapers, would stop printing a paper edition after 30 years. It will be online only, which has been done in cases like the Seattle P-I to some success and has failed in others, but they had tried to keep the print version going, including establishing a separate, more tabloidy version called "i." (The latter remains in print for now but is on the block.) The topic here, though, is still whether there's a business in printing a newspaper the old way. I was a major newspaper devourer back in the day; at a couple of points, I read six papers a day. Now, picking up a newspaper seems alien; it's news I saw yesterday, comics I read online in the morning, and rapidly decreasing advertising space. I get the L.A. Times delivered twice a week not because I want the paper, but because it makes full online access much cheaper. Why can't all newspapers make online revenues work now that the audience has moved there? (ITV)
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