02-04-2018, 10:55 AM
Back to paper mags....
There are those that believe that paper publications have some divine right to survival, based if on nothing else then on their glorious past, and that if they are failing it is somehow due to the low moral caliber the contemporary readership. Really?
There are two simple, in my view indisputable facts:
1) The economy of taking some electronic content, printing it centrally and then moving around a shipload of paper from the creators to the consumers will loose every time to the movement of that content in electronic form.
2) The ratio of content creators to content consumers has ballooned. Yes, it may be argued there was at the same time some dilution of the content quality, but the dry fact remains: the letters and images are now a buyer's market.
Would I pay for content?
Perhaps, but I wouldn't subscribe. I only subscribe to gods and services if I have absolutely no other choice. The rest of my life is strictly a cash-and-carry operation.
There are those that believe that paper publications have some divine right to survival, based if on nothing else then on their glorious past, and that if they are failing it is somehow due to the low moral caliber the contemporary readership. Really?
There are two simple, in my view indisputable facts:
1) The economy of taking some electronic content, printing it centrally and then moving around a shipload of paper from the creators to the consumers will loose every time to the movement of that content in electronic form.
2) The ratio of content creators to content consumers has ballooned. Yes, it may be argued there was at the same time some dilution of the content quality, but the dry fact remains: the letters and images are now a buyer's market.
Would I pay for content?
Perhaps, but I wouldn't subscribe. I only subscribe to gods and services if I have absolutely no other choice. The rest of my life is strictly a cash-and-carry operation.