The end of newspapers

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This is pretty good reading:

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/


choice quote:

"
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for
industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized
for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk
about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing
solves - the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making
something available to the public - has stopped being a problem.
"