Ink may not be dead. But it's starting to smell a bit.

Good evening Chuck,

It seems that the cutoff time to get an article into print is way to early and results in many catching the news on the internet. Watching and listening to the air waves and the repetition of the news they may not be far behind and especially with more and more people going to streaming what they watch on the boob tube. It also seems that some news articles in social media have to be checked for verification.

Make yourself an astonishing day.

Chuck, I'm using the online open house section of our MRIS system, which sort of automatically goes into the Washington Post's online section.  I can't remember the last time I saw someone walking around carrying the weekend real estate section on newsprint!

Chuck, I am one that actually does BOTH, reads daily seven days a week, the print version and also reads off screens. I find that both have advantages and each has gaps only the other can provide. I am pretty unique in my perspective, but the demographics of younger generations say newspapers will die. Sad.

Chuck- I love reading papers but quit print versions years ago.  I read it all online now.  

Hi Chuck Willman UtahHomes.me , I still get the paper daily. I will say, that I get more news from the Internet but the consistent thing is the enormous amount of advertising and many of the articles on line now require that you join the site and pay a fee. It takes a lot less time to turn the page to ignore the ads than it does to do the same thing on line. I do as much as I can while moving about and just sitting in my chair at my desk. I walk around while on the phone and move inside and outside while reading news from my tablet or the newspaper. 

Quite a few years ago, my mom gave me a local newspaper subscription as a Christmas gift. I continue to renew, often wondering why I continuously pay the monthly fee (it's cheap). Every morning, I look forward to holding the newspaper in my hands to read the latest news. And every day I ask myself why I pay to read such propaganda in a few brief pages, it's clearly become a habit that I can't break. However, I will say I don't pay attention to the ads, and that is exactly why I won't pay my hard-earned monies for expensive print advertising while everyone else is online.

Personally, I don't LIKE reading on screen unless it's something really short. I like blog posts and emails, but not news. 

Part of that is the headline hype. With satellite internet it takes a while to get to an article. When I do finally get there and find out that the headline and the article don't match, I get a bit cross. I also get cross if I get there and find that I have to click over and over and over some more in order to get the entire article.

It's much easier and quicker to scan a print article and see if I want to read it. 

The second part is, I like to curl up on the couch with a cup of coffee and paper reading material in my hand. They no longer deliver the daily newspaper out where I live, so I always have a book near at hand. 

It really wasn't worth much any more anyway - as readership and ad dollars declined they cut almost every one of the columnists that I enjoyed reading. 

Our little weekly newspaper was sold to a bigger organization years ago and this year they moved the office to a neighborhing town. It had little of interest before and now it has even less. I did subscribe, however, because I enjoy the "Looking Back" column. In the 80, 90, or 100 year ago news I often see my grandparents or recognize names of people they talked about. 

Meanwhile, when they moved they fired the local editor. She got even - she and her son started their own new newspaper and offered it for free. The advertisers pay the costs of printing and they distribute it in the local stores.

The wonderful part is that the articles in the new freebie are actually interesting - unlike the articles in the old newspaper. 

Some of us will continue to read print. If the presses stop, we'll simply read old books. 

Like anything else Chuck Willman UtahHomes.me - things are now online! Calligraphy is a lost art now! And so is reading newspaper.

I remember the days when I used to wait for daily newspaper - for my crossword puzzle, Now I just ask for it - on Google and I have many to work on, instantaneously!

Ink will not be dead - however, it's drying our for sure.

I don't read as much as skim. It's much easier with print than screen. I like the control of having an actual paper in my hand.

I like reading the newspaper, but just canceled my subscription - mostly because their billing systems and customer service stink.

Too many options!!!

Now we're inundated by options. Now we tweet; we post on blogs; we create email campaigns or newsletters. Some of us are still sending postcards or delivering flyers. We populate our webpages with lots of bling and extensions. We're sponsoring sports teams, buying signs and business cards and slapping our logos and phone numbers on a zillion little promotional items.

Newspapers, print is not dead, just the marketing rays get adjustment to pull back the lever here, push it forward there. Blog daily, worthwhile time and gas and money saving topics. Video's wired for SEO and worth watching, listening too that are hitch hiking on your social media round robin work oh oh so well. It is not just being found in the sell the sizzle not the steak but the busy busy buyer or seller seeing the value in taking the time to connect and to double back to engage more and more. Think customer, think guy and gal in the audience and strike up the conversation with them everything you hunt and peck.

Breath to breath supports seeing is believing and first impression. Next, cyberspace minimums like a web site is a must along with a business card. FYI....I canceled all subscriptions and read five papers at the library daily FREE

Hi Chuck... for me it's been on-line presence for years and working my sphere hard (which includes print, email, calls, visits, etc.) Has worked for many years and I suspect will continue to work.

I used to LOVE reading a stack of papers too, but with the wall of info hitting us on our computers, phones and tablets now, who has time.

Last week a newspaper salesman was nearly begging me to subscribe, and I finally told him that even if it was free, they would likely just stack up by the door and get thrown in the recycling after a few weeks.

I still do quite a bit of print work myself - thanks for sharing your insights Chuck Willman UtahHomes.me 

Good morning Chuck. I think you are right and ir saddens me on so many levels. I still write cardsand letters by hand.

Like Larry above, I have a wrap on the back of my car, and I write posts that end up on Linkedin, Twitter, FB, and many other places.  It's great when we get calls to that effect!

I haven't bought or read a newspaper in years.  I read some online news sites, and get news bulletins and headlines on social media.

The big question is, without newspapers, what are people now using to line the bottom of their bird cages?