Comments on: The end of newsprint http://www.fuelindustries.com/blogs/2007-07-10/the-end-of-newsprint/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:35:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Phillip Kerman http://www.fuelindustries.com/blogs/2007-07-10/the-end-of-newsprint/comment-page-1/#comment-1261 Phillip Kerman Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:23:13 +0000 http://www.fuelindustries.com/blogs/2007-07-10/the-end-of-newsprint/#comment-1261 I'd be glad to wager that both paperbacks and daily papers will still be available in conventional form. If you're point is that display technology will improve greatly where, for some people, it will be more desirable to view digital... then, sure--maybe. To really replace these conventional formats, though, people will have to use the new ones. Many people just don't want to deal with the maintenance required to download and setup stuff in digital. I'm not saying it's so hard... just that many people don't want to become librarians--which, really, is what's happening with photos, music, movies, text, and so on. But... I agree there's some cool stuff coming. Isn't that always the case? I’d be glad to wager that both paperbacks and daily papers will still be available in conventional form. If you’re point is that display technology will improve greatly where, for some people, it will be more desirable to view digital… then, sure–maybe.

To really replace these conventional formats, though, people will have to use the new ones. Many people just don’t want to deal with the maintenance required to download and setup stuff in digital. I’m not saying it’s so hard… just that many people don’t want to become librarians–which, really, is what’s happening with photos, music, movies, text, and so on.

But… I agree there’s some cool stuff coming. Isn’t that always the case?

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