Newspaper Subscriptions

I like to think I’m ahead of the times. I read over 100 blogs a day (I know, a small # for some / most), am deep into the whole “Web2.0″ hoopla, etc, etc. But, there was one thing that I didn’t
consider doing until now.

Cancel my newspaper subscription.

I have subscribed to The Globe and Mail for some time now. I don’t know why, but I felt as though it was one of those “things to do”. It’s $23.00 / month. I just cancelled it and went to subscribe to Globe and Mail’s RSS feeds. Same content, but a much better price: free.

When people catch on to this RSS thing, I wonder what will happen to print newspapers? Once the young crowd starts to grow up and want to begin reading the news, where will they go? RSS or print?

Just something that I might be thinking about if I was a newspaper editor.

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