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If you follow the link, you'll see that quote came almost verbatim from the publisher of the New York Times.

...which is one newspaper in one particular country, who are betting (stupidly) on digital distribution.

Does it not surprise you that they're betting their money on a paywall site, and proclaiming that print newspapers will die? Of course they'd proclaim that! They want you to sign up to a subscription.

They get your money when you subscribe to their print paper too, you know. It's not like their business model actually requires the death of print.

I'd bet they would in theory get far higher margins if anyone did subscribe to their online paper. Also they get to look like they're ahead of the curve.

I'm just saying, it's hardly an unbiased opinion of where things are headed.

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