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Originally Posted by freeztar
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Hope for news maybe, but not newspapers in that piece.
If a company doesn't actually print a hard-copy newspaper, then why call them a newspaper company?
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Originally Posted by Walter Isaacson
...Under a micropayment system, a newspaper might decide to charge a nickel for an article or a dime for that day's full edition or $2 for a month's worth of Web access. Some surfers would balk, but I suspect most would merrily click through if it were cheap and easy enough.
The system could be used for all forms of media: magazines and blogs, games and apps, TV newscasts and amateur videos, porn pictures and policy monographs, the reports of citizen journalists, recipes of great cooks and songs of garage bands. This would not only offer a lifeline to traditional media outlets but also nourish citizen journalists and bloggers. They have vastly enriched our realms of information and ideas, but most can't make much money at it. As a result, they tend to do it for the ego kick or as a civic contribution. A micropayment system would allow regular folks, the types who have to worry about feeding their families, to supplement their income by doing citizen journalism that is of value to their community. ...
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Harping again on the legal notices government entities under law must publish in newspapers like divorce decrees, property sales, suits, etcetera, how is the web going to properly fill that obligation if no hard-copy printed newspapers circulate?
