The concern, in short, is that the Internet will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. But this is unlikely. If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print reporters generate, the Internet news services will hire reporters, defraying the cost out of their online advertising revenues, which will be greater for an Internet news service that attracts additional viewers by offering them richer, newspaper-type fare. Indeed, long after newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post have ceased print publication, their Web sites may be among the leading Internet news services.
Richard Posner on Newspapers
1 July 2008
14 May 2008
The real problem with print as a medium, when compared to the internet, is not (only) that it’s slower. The problem is that it’s not linked to anything. If you have to choose between reading, for example, a motherboard review in a printed mag and on a website, very soon you’ll discover that the printed review lacks so much context that any comparison is unfair. The printed magazine, content-wise, is just like a web page taken offline: nothing more, nothing less. Is there any hope for the print, then?
Mashable on Print