Printed newspapers have shrunk in size and gone way up in price on the newsstand, from what I’ve seen.
Maybe printed newspapers will be obsolete.
Decades ago, many cities had multiple newspapers, both morning and evening papers.
Decades ago, there were many magazine is such as Look and Life and Collier’s and Saturday evening post, which simply went under because of a changing marketplace.
Daily printed newspapers may well go away or cut back to Sundays only eventually, as times and technology are changing.
Yes at best 2/3 the size they used to be in terms of page size and far less pages...and .75 or 1.00 for the daily. Makes little sense to buy the paper
“Maybe printed newspapers will be obsolete.”
Given that they don’t really provide “the news,” I’d say it’s a good move because is spares our forests. Now, if we could only get rid of all the newsprint weekly adverts. The only good news in our neighborhood is that they show up the night before our recycled stuff is picked up, so I walk from the mailbox to the recycle bin and the $hit never gets through my front door. I don’t think being in the newsprint business is going to be a long-term winner for employment either. All the news I need is in FR anyway.
It’s hard to have too many papers in one day when they just print the liberal side of every single thing that goes on. The papers would be twice the size if they actually printed what’s really going on. Our paper, the Dallas Morning News, just reprints articles from the NYT and WPost. The letters to the editor are nasty anti-Trump letters, Brennan is great, Mueller is impecable, McCain is wonderful, Trump is a scumbag letters. They obviously don’t have the advantage of getting the other side so they remain ignorant by only reading the DMN.
Considering I read websites and ebooks, print is becoming a dinosaur.
My favorite formats for reading are epub and djvu. Both easier to read comfortably than pdf.
Print had its day and now people prefer to read on their phone or tablet: