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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't know what's happening in your country, my friend, but the newspaper business is alive and - if not well, then surviving OK - here in the UK, and I am entirely confident that print newspapers will still be with us in 10 or even 20 years' time.
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Here they are dying. Newspapers in the US exist on ad revenue, and much of the ad revenue has been migrating to the Web. Raising customer's purchase price to make up for it causes a further drop in readership. I'm an example. I started reading The Wall Street Journal in 1976. In 2006, I dropped my subscription because I was unemployed and they wanted $250 a year for it. Four months later they offered me 2 years at $99 a year, so I resubscribed. Now they want $450 a year for a subscription. Even with a job, (which I don't have at the moment) it's not worth $450 a year to me. I can get much of the same news from various free websites. Furthermore, I can get
more quote information on the web than I can get in the Wall Street Journal. That's why newspapers are dying in the US.