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Printed
The best thing about newspapers and magazines is the writing quality. The stories are compiled intelligently by paid career writers.
They are embellished with art and photography.
They can sit in the bathroom and be browsed casually without a data connection. Shower moisture damage is no big deal.
They can be collected and are good snapshots of the past.
Wise old conservatives read them.
Brick and mortar book stores prominently display their magazine racks.
Magazines have the best ads. The ads are well targeted.
The volume of magazine stories is limited by the pages that are printed.
I have many magazine subscriptions, however, online news makes newspapers irrelevant for me. In fact I have never had a newspaper subscription and won’t ever need one.
Online
Meanwhile, the Internet has unlimited and searchable content.
My phone, which is always with me, displays online news, stores data for future reference, entertains, and connects me to people.
Anyone can produce and distribute content with little effort.
It’s rules are still being written. It’s is young and growing.
It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Honesty is common.
Knowledge and entities are interconnected.
The Future Hope
I am an online advocate. I would like to see Internet news be legitimized with exclusivity, funding and quality. I would like to see major news organizations shift entirely online, instead of their online effort just being a side show. I would like to know more people who make an honest living from the Internet.
When Internet generations are the majority of people, and everyone’s phone is smart, we will see. There’s a good chance my hope will be realized.
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Newspaper is a regular published print product containing information, news and advertising. Newspapers are living textbooks and they are source of information and learning. It’s a source to find out whats happening in movies, books, concerts, games, jobs and events. Major advantage left to newsprint is that reading it does not require any sophisticated, cumbersome technical equipment. This offers the reader a high level of flexibility: newsprint can basically be read in any place at any time. The reader can absorb the information offered at his own pace. Even the fact that the reader can touch and feel the printed paper while turning the pages may be of some importance.
Disadvantage of Printed edition of newspaper -
Circulation of the newspaper is one of the principal factors, circulation is not the same as copies sold because many copies are read by more than one person this is a major offset as the number of copies distributed are not read.
People away from their home place would always love to read their regional paper wherever they are in any part of the world. Take my case; I have been hunting for my favorite newspaper Times of India in the heart of New York City but in vain and the only solution I found at this time is e-paper.
E-paper and its advantage -
Will e-paper is going to replace the printed edition in future is the question to be asked? ePaper is the replication of newspaper pages which allows one to get the same experience as reading the hard-copy edition and e-paper has the advantages of being interactive, multimedia, of providing internal and external networks and offering selection functions, the possibility of regular updates, access to archives, rapid access to a large number of newspapers, and being paperless, thus creating no problems of waste disposal.
Not even that it’s more convenient from the customer’s point of view while reading the e-paper, I came across Nokia new model cell phone, and by clicking on it; I was taken directly to the website, where I could compare the prices.
So this has led to some predictions that is newspapers will shrink or even disappear?
All the recent surveys both in USA and abroad indicate that print newspaper readership is going down; there has been a dramatic drop in the circulation of papers.
Full time professional employment at daily newspapers is falling. In a desperate attempt to offset the falling revenues, more newspaper groups are setting them up online.
All of the major news publishers have adopted e-paper technology in order to increase their readers and revenue.
Looking at the enormous growth in the Digital News Publishing Industry, many new media companies are offering ePapers and eMagazines at affordable costing with low or no upfront investment. Pressmart Media Limited, a leading new media services company based out of India and USA provides an excellent Multi channel distribution on Web, Mobile, Podcast, Search Engines, Social Networks, Web2.0 sites and RSS.
I hope you do agree that digital versions of news publications will be an added advantage for publishers in increasing their brand value, customer reach and revenues.