Arthur Sulzberger is the owner and chairman of the New York Times. And he has now shocked us all by telling an Israeli newspaper "I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either."
Let me repeat that so you don't miss the magnitude of that statement! "I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either."
Update: Here's a link to what seems to be the original newspaper article.
Sulzberger says the site development costs for the Internet are nothing compared to the huge print investment costs. Furthermore, he said, "...we live in the Internet world..." indicating that the paper is going to have to learn to survive there. It's the future, and he realizes it.
For fans of e-readers this is especially exciting news. It would seem to accelerate the race for e-reader devices and content systems that can adequately collect and present daily and weekly publications. Clearly, such delivery mechanisms are in their infancy, but with so much at stake so soon, there will surely be a lot of activity and technological advances.
We might find that UMPCs and e-ink both gain a lot more traction as this newspaper revolution begins.
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UPI, via a tip from Pride of Lions. Thanks!