Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

The Nation’s website has posted a story entitled “The End of Times,” talking yet again about the current crisis occurring in journalism, mainly about how newspapers are losing regular readers to the Internet and how younger ones aren’t bothering to pick up a newspaper in the first place. If print is indeed dying, then newspapers is where it first started to die.

Excerpt: “What is staring everybody in the face is the evaporation of journalism’s financial foundation into Internet air, where information is supposed to be ‘free’ and ad rates are a fraction of those in print. Young people don’t buy newspapers or watch the evening news–even, or perhaps especially, with cute Katie Couric reading it to them. Blogs are more fun to read and sometimes more reliable. Traditional revenue streams have been diverted by craigslist, eBay, Yahoo! and, of course, Google.”

The Nation: End of Times