Will the NY Times still be printed in 5 years?
NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger isn’t sure. “I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either,” he says. After declining profits and a $570 million loss at the Boston Globe, he is focusing on how to best transition from print to Internet.
Having a paper to feel in your fingers, visually reduce in size as you read each section and bring into the toilet is great, but the pain of delivery, cost, environmental impact and today’s 24 hour news sources should do it in fairly soon. I believe a full printed version will be around 10 more years, likely 20, but in the near future most physical ‘newspapers’ will be a thin flexible lcd screen.