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- marchelo
Publishing: As consumers cut back, advertisers follow, and that means tough times for print publications, including newspapers and magazines, experts say.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, employment in the publishing industry has been contracting since the beginning of last year.
But the "grand decline" of jobs in the media industry, which also includes broadcast and digital media, began with the dot-com bust in 2001, noted Heidi Shierholz an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a research group based in Washington. Now a loss of jobs in traditional publishing is being exacerbated, in part, by the move away from print toward digital media.
"Every time you have a recession it pushes companies that have been holding on by their fingernails out of business," Challenger said. "It clears away an old generation of companies and I think we'll see that with print."
What do you guys think about this?
- tparsons0
Some old will die some new will be born but print as a whole will be hanging around for quite some time.
If the world was to go into a depression.... which is very possible. Who would be able to afford their internet connections? No connections... no need for digital.
- gramme0
Print will always be with us. Granted, most annual reports these days are online only, but people still need stationery. They still need promotional literature, at least for tradeshows and sales calls. The physical album may be a dying art, but people still head to Borders in droves to pick up the latest NY Times bestseller, and people especially still buy books to keep as artifacts. Print will become more and more of a collectible item, especially as more and more people recycle and won't want paper products that aren't keepsakes; but it will always be with us, in some shape or form.
- Arvizu0
I agree with gramme—print will always be with us.
"To the making of many books there is no end" —King Solomon, some 3,000 years ago...
- STRIPPERS0
I think print will become something revised/specialized in the future. Somewhat like what has become of Letterpress printing... It'll be around but alot of books will go digital along with advertising and everything else.