Wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy writes that the advent of digital tablets will bring about the death of the print newspaper industry “in our lifetimes”:
“Make no mistake here: digital publishing, primarily through tablets, is going to sweep through the entire publishing industry. There’s no going back as in, ‘Oh, we tried digital publishing on tablets and it didn’t work out. We’re going back into print publishing. It was all just a fad.’ That is never going to happen.”
This piece addresses the same issue more recently:
http://blog.nnnlp.com/
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/jason-e-klein-print-newspapers-have-a-place-in-a-tablet-heavy-future/
Will Tablets Kill the Newspaper Star?