The owner of the world’s most self-regarding newspaper has been musing that his NY Times might no longer be in print in five years’ time,
Here’s what Arthur Sulzberger has to say;
“I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either… The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we’re leading there.”
The Times’s online readership stands at 1.5 million a day besides its 1.1 million subscribers for the print edition.
But Sulzberger seems to think that people will pay to read his news online…. I doubt that somehow. News is a commodity now, and the NY Times doesn’t do it that much better than anyone else.
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It was taken out of text. C’mon will the day ever come when you can’t read the NY Times in print in the mornings,with a nice cup of joe. Try fliping pages with a mouse. Print is here to stay!
David, I agree with you more or less. I think it will be a long time before electronics come up with anything as nice as paper. But what I am sure about, is that the revenues are flowing away from print to online.