I used to be an avid buyer of newspapers. No longer. Whereas I used to buy The Guardian or The Independent, I can now read both, plus The Australian, Washington Post, NYT etc etc etc all online and cost free. I am not alone:
More than one-fifth of people who read newspapers on the internet have all but abandoned purchasing print editions, a report has found.
A US survey by the research company Nielsen//NetRatings revealed that 21% of internet users who read daily newspapers have transferred the bulk of their newspaper reading to the internet.
There are, however, unforseen consequences. I broke a glass the other day and it still sits in pieces waiting to be disposed of. The trouble is that you can’t wrap broken glass in a web-page.
