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Most Folks Say They'll Miss Their Print Newspapers If They Disappear

by Terrence O'Brien on May 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Survey Says 22 Percent Ditching News Papers for Internet
As more and more people get their news from the Internet, several long standing papers have closed up shop and gone online-only. We expect others to follow. However, a new study from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication suggests that, although most folks increasingly prefer to read their news online, they don't necessarily want to see newspapers go away.

Of the 2,030 people surveyed, 22-percent had canceled a subscription to a print publication because they can get the same product online -- more often than not for free.

Still, the survey reveals a growing nostalgia for print, as 61-percent of those who read newspapers (both online and in print) said they would miss the print edition if it were canceled, up from 56-percent last year. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, sales of newspapers dropped about 7-percent in the last 6 months, clearly suggesting that the nostalgic crowd must not be missing newspapers too much (or else they'd be coughing up for subscriptions in greater numbers).



The only definite thing to take away from this survey is that we as consumers have no idea what we want. We don't want print to die, but we don't want to pay for it either -- eventually we're all going to have to accept that we can't have our cake and eat it too. [From: Yahoo! News]

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