Not Comics: Did Newspapers Make An Industry-Wide Wrong Choice In Their Digital Media Strategies?

Probably, sure.

This is interesting for both the way it mirrors comics issues -- whether companies should pursue webcomics formats versus merely bringing digital editions of comic books to life -- and the fact that newspapers are a great vehicle for comic strips.

What's interesting to me looking back is how focused this conventional wisdom was. The perspicacity of moving resources into on-line publications was and is routinely challenged. I've been a skeptic, too. The way more interesting thing is that this resources push was assumed to into some sort of a site that mirrored the newspaper in some way. There were very few other options considered. It's amazing to me looking back that there wasn't a magazine model tried with more regularity, given that the issues involved in splitting resources are similar.
 
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