Comments on: Interesting Video Of The Death Of The Rocky Mountain News http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/02/27/interesting-video-of-the-death-of-the-rocky-mountain-news/ Movie Reviews, iPhone App Reviews, and Tech Commentary by Jason Kaneshiro Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:45:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: webomatica http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/02/27/interesting-video-of-the-death-of-the-rocky-mountain-news/comment-page-1/#comment-29726 webomatica Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:22:15 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=4828#comment-29726 Yeah, certainly the cost structure of newspapers has got to come way down in<br>parallel - the number of papers we have that essentially deliver the same<br>articles isn't needed these days. No matter how one slices it, print or no<br>print, a lot of papers will go under.<br>Content "wanting" to be free is a huge problem,for everyone. But I think<br>readers are willing to pay for the service - paying for the delivery of the<br>content as opposed to the content itself. I agree the web is not going to<br>fly - but perhaps going one step beyond to the iPhone or the Kindle will<br>work.<br><br>It seems Hearst Co (big newspaper publisher) is thinking along these<br>lines, with<br>plans to release their own e-reading<br>device<http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/27/technology/copeland_hearst.fortune/>-<br>just noticed this after I hit "publish" on this article. :) Yeah, certainly the cost structure of newspapers has got to come way down in
parallel – the number of papers we have that essentially deliver the same
articles isn't needed these days. No matter how one slices it, print or no
print, a lot of papers will go under.
Content “wanting” to be free is a huge problem,for everyone. But I think
readers are willing to pay for the service – paying for the delivery of the
content as opposed to the content itself. I agree the web is not going to
fly – but perhaps going one step beyond to the iPhone or the Kindle will
work.

It seems Hearst Co (big newspaper publisher) is thinking along these
lines, with
plans to release their own e-reading
device<http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/27/technology/copeland_hearst.fortune/>-
just noticed this after I hit “publish” on this article. :)

]]> By: jcieplinski http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2009/02/27/interesting-video-of-the-death-of-the-rocky-mountain-news/comment-page-1/#comment-29725 jcieplinski Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:09:55 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=4828#comment-29725 I agree that the medium of the paper, not the concept of journalism, is dead. However, to date, there is no sustainably profitable way to make money on the web if you're going to hire professional journalists, do the proper research, etc. Web ads, for the second time, are proving to be ineffective. So how can newspapers survive as RSS entities? No one seems to have figured that out yet. Whoever does is going to be pretty rich. <br><br>As long as the public demands content for free, content providers are going to go bankrupt. I agree that the medium of the paper, not the concept of journalism, is dead. However, to date, there is no sustainably profitable way to make money on the web if you're going to hire professional journalists, do the proper research, etc. Web ads, for the second time, are proving to be ineffective. So how can newspapers survive as RSS entities? No one seems to have figured that out yet. Whoever does is going to be pretty rich.

As long as the public demands content for free, content providers are going to go bankrupt.

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