New technology means the old ways of doing business won’t survive — how much longer will we have newsprint?

The ways changing reality forces change in the ways business is done: Nicholas Cohen wrote in January that it costs the New York Times “about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a year as it would cost to send each of its subscribers a brand new Amazon Kindle instead.” Cohen concludes that, “as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn’t just expensive and inefficient; it’s laughably so.” In taking down the pay wall to some its contentmaking Web, the Times recognzied that “site visitors pay for content would not bring in as much money as making it available for free and supporting it with advertising.” We’ll see what happens with the newsprint . . .