‘The New York Times was founded in 1851, maybe it was cool just to get a newspaper.  This is not 1851’

We’ve just seen some numbers on iPad magazine sales.  They were not good.  Now everyone is speculating, and it is finally sinking in that mobile devices are part of the Internet.  The iPad doesn’t set us up for a return to pre-Internet business models.  The web is not dead.  Mobile devices may not be serving up content in a web browser as often as on our laptops and desktops, but regardless what app is used to serve up the content, it is being served from the Internet, and the Internet has changed the world too much for this model to make sense anymore.

Nobody gets their content from only one source; this is the Internet.  Nobody is going to pick their favorite newspaper or magazine and just stick to their app.  The New York Times was founded in 1851, maybe it was cool just to get a newspaper.  This is not 1851.

Read Why The Internet Is Destroying The Future Of Journalism (or not) on the excellent Measuring Measures