Media experts see a sad future for newsagents. A future with no news. In a world of instant online news, RSS feeds and smartphone news apps, the newspaper as we know it is simply on its last legs and with the advent of E-newspapers, the good old paper tabloid gets another nail in its coffin.
This is the opening paragraph of an article published at GAJ-IT about the new digital only newspaper from News Corporation.
GAJ-IT is not alone in publicly speculating about the long term future of the channel. Good newsagents will thrive amid all of the disruption we see around us.
The demand for news has never been stronger, but what is changing is that dead trees are no longer the transport mechanism people prefer. Newsagents need to realise they are in the news business and not the paper business and adapt to that and they will be fine.