Saturday, March 31, 2007

Open Access and the Newspaper Business

Newspapers are facing a serious financial strain. (I'm not sure it's truly a crisis). Advertising and subscription revenues fell significantly over the summer, and they do not appear poised to rebound.

Does this mean that open access to professional writing cannot survive at current levels of advertising support? Doc Searls thinks not, and has a great post explaining why at http://doc.weblogs.com/2007/03/24#howToSaveNewspapers.

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