13 October 2012

The Future of Newsprint - The Development of the Highly Affordable Short-Run Newspaper

By P J Carson


There isn't any doubt that the newsprint business is struggling. Various newspaper printing businesses are going bust at a mind boggling pace. Most blame the Internet, and some attribute administration. In general everyone understands that the business is in turmoil. The business model utilized for above a century just isn't performing today. Is there an alternative business plan? The most important newspaper printing plants across the world are desperately in search of a solution to this challenge. Thus far, the heads of the industry have not yet developed good quality recommendations.

So, is newsprint just about to become extinct? Are the very last days of the newspaper at hand? Is newsprint about to go the path of eight-track audio tapes? Will it turn into a nostalgic cognizance induced by uncovering yellowed newsprint at the back of a basement while in a periodic overdue spring cleaning?

Absolutely not.

Millions of people on a daily basis still read a newspaper, and the "niche" newspaper is blossoming. It's not that men and women don't desire to read paper copy; it's that the public wants to read solely on subject matter that interests them.

The daily newspaper at one point would impart us with our consistent digest of information and news. A lot of people often would read them from cover to cover in the morning with a cup of coffee, or perhaps in the evenings while relaxing in an easy chair. Today, the internet has substituted this, and it fits best into our stressful routines. Daily newspapers are still read, but merely for an average of a quarter-hour each time.

Interestingly, enormous amounts continue to be spent on catalogues, literature, newsletters and sundry other periodicals that people still are capable of holding using their hands. They like being able to read while perusing with a drink, dinner if not more private spots (dare I say it...the throne?).

Newsprint is still essentially the most cost-effective print media in the world. It's not that printers ought to be put out of business. They should transform their business, and adapt to the market that's transforming around them.

Previously, a four-color newsprint web-press has depended on the necessity for multi-page newspapers to be printed in the tens of thousands day by day, each week or each and every month. That also has been the model for longer than a century. That is the plan that every printing factory has implemented unquestionably since roughly its invention.

That model is history. That method is expired. That plan should be packed away -- perhaps in the storage area. The industry needs to see the future, and adopt the hints of advancement which is going on everywhere.

Especially, niche, short-run newspapers will be the future of newsprint. They are the future for individuals, for companies and agencies, as well as for everyone. These represent the sole sensible direction for the existence for one of man's most significant inventions -- man's first social media:

The newspaper.




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