Not Comics: On Leaving Print Behind

Steve Outing writes in crystal-clear fashion about dropping the print edition of his newspaper and moving to an on-line iteration. This is important for a lot of reasons. One is that Outing is a newspaper guy, so his dropping his local paper really underlines how many even devoted newspaper readers are doing this. Another is that comics played an important part in this decision. A third is that this move has enormous implications for maybe the greatest delivery system for comics in the 20th Century: revenue models are still unsettled for on-line iterations of newspapers, comics may have a different relationship with on-line newspapers than they do with the safe harbor of print newspapers that made millionaires of several cartoonists, and if newspapers ever build the kind of comfortable monopoly they enjoyed in the second half of the 20th Century it's still a long way away from happening.

For a different view on recent advertising revenue figures regarding print newspaper publications, go here.
 
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