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Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper.
- tjr 19y agoI rather enjoy a good newspaper. Perhaps I just have more years than the customers who decide a products' fate -- I grew up with an Apple II instead of an Apple iPod -- but there's something about spending an hour quietly reading a physical newspaper that I just don't get out of websites. I'm not really even sure how to describe it. Good material on the printed page just holds a certain intrigue and mystique. Regrettably, our local newspaper is dwindling. Less of this, less of that, and even though it's printed on paper, a tiny helping of suboptimally-written material makes it a shell of what it once was.
- JayNeely 19y agoIt's all about quality of content. High-quality will get readers, whether that's in print or online. The problems newspapers face are: a) Most of them don't have much high-quality content. The majority of their content is syndicated from other sources. b) It's expensive to produce high-quality content. And expensive to disseminate it as well. It may be cheaper to do so online, but the ad revenues are lower. My startup is helping to solve both problems. We'll enable news publishers to increase the quality of their content, with fewer people.