Is print dead?

[SFG75]

A humorous feature by J.A. Konrath. On another interesting note, another blogger posted that e-books are resurrecting print.

 

[joderu95]

There is an article in the Atlantic related to this too about Google's attempt to redefine how the news is disseminated. There is a good quote about the newspaper industry.

“If you were starting from scratch, you could never possibly justify this business model,” Hal Varian said, in a variation on a familiar tech-world riff about the print-journalism business. “Grow trees—then grind them up, and truck big rolls of paper down from Canada? Then run them through enormously expensive machinery, hand-deliver them overnight to thousands of doorsteps, and leave more on newsstands, where the surplus is out of date immediately and must be thrown away? Who would say that made sense?”

 

[readsalot]

print's not dead yet, it's just got to move over for e stuff. Print's still the ideal. Even people who self publish via the internet have the dream of being accepted by traditional publishers.