Change is coming to the Australian newspaper market. Fairfax recently announced that they were going to move their titles to the tabloid format and focus their news delivery on the Internet including the introduction of a pay-wall. Here is Mark Fletcher, Australian Newsagency Blog, being interviewed on ABC.
Relevant to the UK market? Absolutely, I wonder when UK national titles will start to close, how does the Independent model work for instance. What last week’s Local Shop Summit illustrated is that the shrinkage of the newspaper market does not mean the demise of the local newsagent, they just need to manage a transformation to another relevant format and the videos of Roli Ranger, Paul Cheema and Bintesh Amin’s shops showed how this might be done.
As Mark says its the roundsmen that have a much bigger challenge
StevehtmS Denham
22/06/2012
Another Aussie Newsagency owner gives his view on the changes to newspapers announced this week, http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/06/21/3530140.htm
Chander Hingorani
22/06/2012
The world including the publishers are moving from print to the internet. This trend will accelerate. The Mail group eanrs more from internet rather than print. The younger generation and the technoloy is moving in that direction.
So what about the Newsagents or rather Convenience stores. These guys are innovative and bold and will gear to the new market. They always have and will do.