Where all this will lead is still anyone’s guess. There isn’t a good viable pay model for online content yet. Yet. It’s coming. And when it does an entire generation is going to be shocked when they have to pay for things they now get for free. Money always wins. Always.

The thing that continues to annoy me is that the majority of newspapers in this country are more focused on pleasing their stockholders than they are their readers. which makes no sense to me at all. After all, losing readership will be a far more painful bottom line to stockholders in the long term than the marginal profits they demand today.

Wow… the DP dropping comics. That is just sad. Of course, they are cost centers and if they ain’t selling advertising…

Overall, I am not surprised. Considering just before I came to your site, I hit certain newspapers’ websites to read tomorrow’s comics. At midnight, I’ll go to comics.com to read the rest. No longer do I pick up a newspaper to read what I think is the best part of any paper.

I hate to say it, but I think most newspapers are doomed. They print yesterday’s news, charge for content, and can’t seem to get a working on-line subscription model due to the numerous free content sites.

The part that scares me about the demise of the printed paper is what happens when they are gone? On-line providers can start charging and what used to be accessible to anyone will be behind a pay-wall.

The free flow of information will cease to exist. In turn, this will make information all the more valuable. Our entire economy is on the verge of a massive change to creating, buying and selling information. Imagine saying: “I went to work today so I could pay to find out what happened yesterday.” Truly a depressing outcome from the theory of creative destruction.

Creation of art will always be valuable. People desire subjective beauty. Art’s distribution is changing, too. In a way Drew, you leaped ahead of the curve by using the internet to create, distribute, and charge (where you can) for your unique art and services. Going forward, the act of creating something the market desires is where the profit is. Distribution of art, in whatever form that may take, is just keeping pace with logistics and economics.

Mike

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Appears at the top of the screen which causes the other bars to miss-align. Is it just me?

Also that header, it just needs something, it just doesn’t have that pop or x factor, it is missing something.