Of course not much changes for content

It all started when they stopped using teens and pre-teens to deliver. (Paperboys) Then they jacked-up the classified prices and let Craigslist and autotrader.com literally have their lifebeat. Too late to the internet...full of adverts... Don't get me started on customer service. I tried to buy a paper out of a machine the other day and it wouldn't take my quarters...

You'll know it's bad when you see the New York Times on an iPad at the bottom of that bird cage.

Newspapers could go online very easily since most use Quark which has the capability to export html and xml. They could compete at local levels fairly easily since they have the ground troops for photography/video as well as the reporters. The want ad listings are usually more legitimate than scary craigs list Keeping the listing as they have is a better format. The problem is they try to redesign what works into something horrible and riddled with links instead of keeping the format as they had.

Newspapers don't really make money on the paper product since the cost of paper is so outrageous now a. The price you see basically pays for the material costs of the final product and the distribution. The real money is made by the advertisers. It is feasible to make a free paper online to the users if done correctly but upper management is usually too stupid to figure it out.

Newspapers have been trying to figure out how to make money online since the 1980s -- since before the World Wide Web was invented.

They have been trying the free website supported by ads model since 1995. And it's come down to this: The price of advertising online is too low to support the cost of producing an online free local newspaper.

The printed editions of free and subscription newspapers succeed because advertising prices are orders of magnitude higher for an ink-on-paper ad than for the equivalent online ad. It's dollars vs. pennies.

Maybe that will change. But for now, that's the state of affairs.

You are a true artist. This is on the level of the best of Far Side. I think you should sell that peace to a major news paper.

Thanks,

Maybe we should have stock photo section on the forum of 3d renders and effects.

Hard to sell anything to anyone in this economy.