Is Print Dead? [Infographic]
In the week that the chairman of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr has for the first time cast doubt over the future of the great newspaper, conceding that at some point in the future it will no longer be printed, check this “print is dead” infographic, which starkly shows how much the industry is set to shrink in the coming years.
The death of print, so long talked of, is closer at hand than ever most notably now because the tablet computer has been cracked and a whopping 60% of us could have them in the next three years. The New York Times, of course by then will have beautiful tablet newspaper on offer, I’m sure.
Infographic from Sketchee.com.
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Thanks for reposting my graphic!
[...] It is the end of paper publishing; we have reached the point of no return. There I said it – and I am not alone. It is now the global common, spoken or unspoken consensus that the publishing industry’s paper products have reached the end of their lifecycle. [...]
[...] Print (still) isn’t dead, the Guardian said print remains “critical”, but the condition of print news is terminal if not close to terminated. Rusbridger said that “every newspaper is on a journey into some kind of digital future. That doesn’t mean getting out of print, but it does require a greater focus of attention, imagination and resource on the various forms that digital future is likely to take”. [...]