@RJM posted:It won’t be long before major papers only arrive in email and browser rather than on the doorstep. I believe the New Orleans paper was the first. It won’t be long before the age group resistant to using the internet is gone.
I remember having it out with my mother that I wasn’t going to drive her all over the greater metro area looking for something. We’ll find it online, identity where we can see it with the intent of making the purchase when we arrive. Now many people are at the point, “ I don’t need to see it live. If it’s not what I want I’ll return it.”
Won't be just major papers. I cover a town of 16,000 and there probably a dozen papers like mine around. When I was writing my business plan I talked to several older readers who said "oh, I'm sorry, I can't give up my print paper."
But they are at heart newspaper readers. They bought ipads and are thrilled that they can read the "paper" while snowbirding in Florida or here at home.