The newspapers have been hardly getting used to the news being telecast on the television, when unexpectedly the advent of the internet introduced a crucial blow to the newspaper industry. Most of the newspapers haven’t been able to face up to the onslaught of the internet and have been forced into closure. Let us first see the basic distinction between the newspapers and e-news.
Pros of the online news
The advantages of online news are primarily for the readers. A few of these advantages are as follows.
The e-news is far quicker than the newspapers. The second something happens in any part of the world it gets printed on the internet within seconds. In case of newspapers there is a particular time limit for any news to be reported in any explicit newspaper. Suppose the newspaper goes for printing at midnight, anything that happens after midnight goes to most probably get revealed the following day. In these kinds of situation the newspaper offers stale news to the readers who have already accessed the web news.
Any newspaper get revealed once, twice or maximum thrice a day. On the other hand e-news normally gets up to date several instances in 24 hours.
If one has accesses to the internet, one does not have to attend for the delivery man to deliver the newspaper.
E-news is considered to save lots of paper and assist at conservation of nature.
Cons of the web news
The net news has some disadvantages but those are primarily for the newspaper publishers. The rates of subscriptions and advertisements are significantly reduced in case of on-line news. This implies that as the number of readers of online news increases the revenue generation of the newspaper publisher is falling drastically.
Methods for the newspapers to outlive
There are only a few ways that the newspapers can resort to for surviving the blow of the e-news. A few of the newspapers cost subscription to the readers that like to read more than what is offered for free. There may be just a link for “more” which could be activated and operational after paying some subscription charges. If you do not pay the subscription the “more” link can’t be activated.
A lot of the newspaper publishers have realized that if they need the newspaper to outlive they need to publish the newspaper in print as well as online on the internet.
The iPad from Apple has introduced some hope for the newspapers. There are applications that allow the iPad person to access the internet and the newspapers too.
Nowadays it becomes necessary for the newspaper to make a singular providing to its readers.
The other means for the newspaper publishers to outlive is through blogging. There are possibilities that levying subscription can reduce the revenue generated however at the similar it’s also seen that distinctive blogs can convey quite a lot of business to the newspaper publisher.